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PC News by Oli Welsh
UK site Electronic Theatre has claimed that the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been delayed by two weeks.
Electronic Theatre says it has seen a release schedule which has the PC version of the blockbuster shooter releasing on November 24th, two weeks after the console versions on November 10th. Activision has yet to confirm or deny the delay.
Possible reasons put forward for the hold-up include fears over piracy - often cited as the reason for the late release of PC versions of multi-platform games - or a manufacturing problem.
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sarcasmoidosis
06/10/09 @ 08:37
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"because piracy on the other consoles is quite widespread"
On the other console, you mean? :) |
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the_dudefather
06/10/09 @ 08:40
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what's up with this practice of last minute pc delaying, I'm looking at you borderlands, arkham asylum and MW2
I guess it's working on the logic that the pc version gets leaked a week early, so release that 2 weeks later than the console version also pls buy the more expensive console version kthx |
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Dont you have to get the machine chipped or something though (i honestly dont know these days) too much hassle if you ask me.
I think you do, and need to burn the games in a certain way or something, and also it must be a certain DVD drive, and then get banned sooner or later, so I don't think one can compare its being as widespread as in PC world. |
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ChthonicEcho
06/10/09 @ 08:45
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@miiiguel
No, but it's a bloated issue. Furthermore, a very small (and thus insignificant from a commercial standpoint) percentage of pirates are affected by delays of PC games in that they actually buy them on the console of their choice. Remember Alone in the Dark? That game was allegedly impossible to crack, yet a great deal of pirates waited for the game to appear on torrents. Eventually, it did. You don't stop pirates by delaying their games, and it's a widely known fact. |
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ChthonicEcho
06/10/09 @ 08:53
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@miiiguel
Their influence is hardly noticeable. They damage companies to a certain point, but not to a harmful degree when it comes to ones such as Activision and Infinity Ward. It's independent developers that pirates hurt the most. However, I'll have you know that pirates actually feel for indie developers and support them (the fact that indie games are cheap helps). Not all of them do, of course, but most of them. Edit: Gah, I can't believe I'm debating piracy. I know everyone disagrees with my view. Bracing for self-inflicted shitstorm.
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Just my luck... I decide I might buy Call of Duty: MW2 on the PC instead of the 360 now I have a system capable of running it well only to find out it may be delayed because of the usual excuse, i.e. piracy.
Sucks... but at least it's only two weeks and the PC version is the cheapest version by far and will very likely be the best version anyway. It's worth waiting IMO. With the obscene price of the console versions there's no way I'm even remotely tempted by those anyway. As a PC gamer though, these delayed multiformat games are worrying. How long will it be before publishers/developers decide not to even bother releasing games on that platform? |
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dirk_aircool
06/10/09 @ 09:45
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sounds like a bollox excuse. I dont bother with Pc games anymore but it still annoys me when they have silly delay's . are they trying to make sure it sells the REALLY EXPENSIVE console version to the max . a 2 week delay for any game smacks more of marketing .they must be all boxed up and ready to go right now . a 2 month + delay is understandable but not 2 weeks.
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actionfitz
06/10/09 @ 10:03
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would be tempted by a PC version of this seeing as usually PC versions go for cheaper.
shame my friends list on xbox live are the ones I actually want to play this with :/ that and I'll not be forking out for it until it hits a reasonable price point... which i'll not hold my breath for :/ |
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The cynic in me says it is so they get more people to pay the higher console prices for a couple of weeks. The piracy argument is , frankly, bollocks.
Plus, the console pirates can still play it online, whereas pc versions will need a valid key to play on official servers (or play on private servers which tend to suck anyway) |
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Ashen-Shugar
06/10/09 @ 10:27
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"the console pirates can still play it online"
A chipped 360 will get you banned from XBL pretty damned quickly, and as you have to go through XBL to play it online I can't see piracy being much of a problem at all for this game. |
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sarcasmoidosis
06/10/09 @ 10:49
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"A chipped 360 will get you banned from XBL pretty damned quickly"
Not really. If you know what you're doing you can play on Live with a modded console. It's risky, of course, but doable. |
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john_silence
06/10/09 @ 11:14
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Ridiculous news, my antipathy towards Activision just grew one notch higher.
I'll be buying and playing the PC version anyway, as I have it preordered for less than 30 euros, but this still sucks. Where other developers add long, annoying delays but include a bit of content to appease the PC crowd, Activision is just pouring salt on the wound for a few days, dancing around and laughing, all the while donning a mask in Bobby Kotick's effigy. That's quite the ordeal, by the way. At least until now Pc users got the map packs for free, which is really pretty cool! Edits: man, that "Enter" key can be a bitch sometimes.
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Mooglepies
06/10/09 @ 11:31
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It's piracy, most likely. I don't particularly care though as I'm still playing CoD4 online and having a blast; I don't see the need for MW2 at this stage and L4D2 is out near it as well.
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Oh hell no.
Also, this game is going to sell ALOT on the PC - especially through Steam (that includes me and all of my friends). The only piracy issues they are going to have to deal with is not releasing it in time or if a pirated version of this leaks before release. Even so, if it is good enough some of the so-called pirates are possible buyers in the end. It happened with CoD4:MW, it can happen with CoD:MW2. Heck, if it leaks people will get it pirated and THEN buy it at release (for multiplayer). So if they are worried about piracy then they are just doing it wrong. |
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riplikethat
06/10/09 @ 16:01
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It's just two weeks. Like others said, obviously they want to sell the expensive version first. 2, 3 or even 6 months isn't enough to make me buy a console version so it doesn't really matter as far as I am concerned. :P
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makeamazing
06/10/09 @ 17:40
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Now i wonder if this is two weeks for PC CD or Steam as well? Because you cant really use the piracy excuse for Steam. To be honest I dont want to talk about pirates because they do my head in... bunch of loser... anyway. Getting this on console (buying less and less on PC these days unfortunately).
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