Just came accross this, as the original video was removed from YouTube by Activision. I’m assuming theres some material truth to it then, otherwise Activision wouldn’t care about it. Anyway, here it is. Rumured to be called the ‘Stimulus’ package, and released some time in april. This better not be a paid-for DLC.
So soemthing which has bothered me recently, is the differences in the time played ont he stats screens on the single-player and multi-player progrmas respectively. Now, if it were a few minutes out, thats acceptable. BUT, when i looked today its over a day out. thats 24 hours appeared from nothing.
This screenshot i made better explains it.
Note the difference in time played. Over 1 day more on the single-player screen, than that of the multi-player screen.
Does this suggest that the single-player stats has counter how long i have been running the multi-player game (lobby+playing)?
In which case, 1/3 of the total time i have spent on this game (1 day) has been looking at a failed IWnet lobby.
Thanks allot IW.
On a side note, my bad for not updating in a little while – Getting fed up with MW2 again. Also i bought Bioshock 2 pre-order off steam and i need to complete Bioshock 1 before i can play the second one, if not my OCD will eat me, so thats keeping me busy
So fourzerotwo, aka Robert Bowling, has personally banned the Xbox 360 console and Xbox live account of a modder (named anthonyaisrael8) who posted a video on his YoTube account that showed that Map Packs were already on the retail disc. The video was soon removed from YouTube by Activision and the following message was sent to him:
Here is anthonyaisrael8’s response to the banning:
The original video was removed too quick for us to grab it, but Justless over on the MW247 forums managed to grabs some screenshots of them.
Mp pack 1 :
Revolt – ?
Pic : Here
Complex – ?
Pic : Here
Storm – ?
Pic : Here
Abandoned – ?
Pic : Here
DCWH – D.C White House – CONFIRMED (this is what i’d like to see)
Pic : Here
Compact – ?
Pic : Here
Old map pack 1 (4 CoD 4 Maps)
Shipment – SHIPMENT – CONFIRMED
Pic : Here
Vacant – VACANT – CONFIRMED
Pic : Here
Overgrown – OVERGROWN – CONFIRMED
Pic : Here
Crash – CRASH – CONFIRMED
Pic : Here
P.s, I’m a dedicated PC player with a flashed and jTag’d 360 in my room, this could get interesting.
A Romanian websie (.ro) has detailed the process of how anyone can get around steams protection, and run MW2 piggybacked off another Steam game (much like the Zero gear hack). This one sees Trackmania used instead of Zero Gear(which is actually pretty fun heh).
I’ll post the source up here, in fact, because any real game developer (ahaha) would have this fixed so quick that it wouldn’t matter how publicised it is.
402 has stated in a recnt tweet that “Top men are on it.” refering to the hackers & cheaters on MW2 PC. he also said that “Steam ban hammer is coming down on about 2,500 confirmed #MW2 cheaters on PC today.”
But can the industry sustain high costs and huge stakes? Infinity Ward prised as much as $50 million from Activision’s budget to develop Modern Warfare 2, reports suggest.
That figure is thought to be far less than Infinity Ward had initially been offered.
In the first half of an extensive interview with Develop, Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling revealed the extent in which Activision was willing to go to ensure Modern Warfare 2 hits its marks.
“Early on – when we decided to make a sequel – Activision estimated out a ridiculous budget. And we were like: ‘No, we don’t need that’,” he said.
The $40-50 million that Infinity Ward spent – a number quoted by anonymous sources in an LA Times report – is not as eyebrow-raising as it was several years ago.
Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 5 budget said to be hovering around the $60 million mark, and when revealing the costs, Gran Turismo series producer Kazunori Yamauchi said the budget was a small amount considering the size and scale of the title.
“There are other games that cost more,” he said at the time.
It is widely believed that GTA IV’s development budget is an industry record. Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies previously claimed the GTA IV budget was at $100 million.
The huge numbers underline the growing era of risk in the game development sector, with rocketing game budgets pushing the stakes to an all-time high.
Robert Walsh, the CEO of Australian outfit Krome, recently told Develop that game budgets are rising at a frightening pace.
“I think that’s one thing that the press, to a certain extent, is forgetting,” said Walsh in an interview.
“They’re saying sales have increased over ten percent since last year or whatever; I mean, dev costs have probably doubled or tripled in the console transition.”
Walsh’s Krome studio has in the past week announced layoffs across all three of its studios, citing poor sales that – presumably – failed to satisfy investments.
The LA Times report also claims that the marketing costs of Modern Warfare 2 hit close to $200 million – a staggering figure for a video game marketing campaign.
However, Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Lazard Capital markets, believes that the FPS will sell as many as 20 million units, exceeding $1 billion in revenue. The game’s sales have already exceeded $550 million.
402 has said on the IW forums that MW2 has outsold CoD4 sales on the PC, int he first week. No numbers were disclosed.
From the official Infinity Ward forums:
Yes, PC is the smallest percentage in terms of how much sold on each platform but that hardly means anything other than the PC is just the smallest market.The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 has actually outsold the PC version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in its first week. Making it the most successful PC version.
Essentially, all this percentage proves is that the console versions sold great, not that the PC version sold poorly, because that’s actually not the case. The PC version has done tremendous in its first week, better than our previous game.
This highlights that the true CoD PC fans, and those who are still boycotting MW2, are a niche within a niche.
Welcome to ModernWarfare2-pc.com. This site is basically turned into a rant about MW2 from a gamer who plays it on the PC version. I do try and post decent articles from time to time, so its not all me moaning :) - Leetmu
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This site is not intended to mirror all the media crap that comes out of the MW2 hype, but instead be a technical resource base for the PC users of MW2.
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Feb 18th 2010: I have done some theme updating, and now we are running the Pro version of Clean Home theme with a few custom edits. This is now much better looking that the free version we we running. :)
