Monday, October 4, 2010

Call of Duty: Black Ops, I fart in your general direction.

Now that the release of call of duty black ops is just around the corner, I was getting totally excited for this upcoming Christmas period, The shelf life of AAA production is getting shorter and shorter and with modern warfare 2 servers already drying up and bad company 2 servers all but deserted, I thought it would be nice to get my gaming fix on those long nights of insomnia. With university work also piling up, time consuming games like MMORPG's are just not a viable option for me at the moment.

So what had got me so excited about Black ops? Two words: Dedicated servers. Infinity Ward massively screwed the consumers over with their matchmaking system, especially for Australians where the player pool is so small it can take upwards of 10 minutes to find enough people for a 15 minute game, I'm sorry but an almost 50/50 ratio of waiting to gameplay time is just unacceptable. So with the press release announcing dedicated servers it would have seemed Treyach had actually listened to the feedback of the gaming community and provided what was direly needed. So I let out a relieved sigh, everything was going to be OK right?

WRONG.
In a turn of events, Activision, the money hungry whores that they are decided that the way it's been done for the entire history of gaming is not good enough for them and that the deep pockets of their stockholders just aren't filled with enough cash from the raping and pillaging of the MW2 community. So although the game comes with dedicated server support, there will be a monthly fee to rent one from the exclusive vendor of gameservers.com. So ON TOP of the original $100 you shelled out for the game in the first place, you now have a monthly subscription fee to pay.

So is this it? the future of gaming? Buy the game, pay for downloadable content, pay a monthly fee, I'll be staying tuned for the announcement of the Extra high definition fee, or what we now call changing the resolution. Revolution is in the air, we have been pushed too far, and soon the gamers will revolt. We will march the streets, keyboards and controllers in hand, neck-beards swaying gently in the breeze. I just wonder where I can buy sunscreen wholesale.
Activision, I am naming you number two enemy to we, the gamers, second only to that of summer screen glare.

Heed my warning, head shots will roll.



17 comments:

  1. I agree, we're being bled dry.

    Love the monthy python reference btw!

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  2. Great post!

    looking forward to reading the next one

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  3. Call of Duty seems to be releasing games and add ons like it's going out of style. Jeez.

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  4. I think that it is a problem for most games: The business is only into money, and not into games. But what EA and Activision is doing right now goes way to far!

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  5. If it wasn't for first day dlc costing 15$ and add-ons and expansions every few months, I'd probably enjoy console FPS's a bit more.

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  6. Fart in mine huh.
    Well i piss in your general direction.

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  7. i will get the next call of duty for sure

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  8. they are like drug dealers man, people shelling out their cash for the next fix

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  9. i cant keep track of call of duty. i give up.

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  10. Your mother smells of elderberries!!

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  11. They're sucking all they can out of us! But hey, it won't stop me from buying MW titles!

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  12. bleeding us dry, but its a step back in the right direction, also im sure that the server files will be leaked eventually. They cant keep it secure forever.

    Have faith brother, we will be able to lean, prone, tourney, cal and all soon.

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  13. supported!

    varmsaus.blogspot.com

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  14. Wait wait wait. Fee to rent a dedicated server, or fee to PLAY them too?

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