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I have canceled my Pre-order, screw Infinity Rip-off
PC Modern Warfare 2 Dedicated Server Petition.
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[QUOTE="siddhu33"][QUOTE="Jandurin"] almost exactly what i was going to sayJandurin
Dude, you have 70000 posts???? That's awesome!
D= I suppose that's one way to look at it.i shall mourn your loss jandurin
Why should IW put that extra effort into a game that is just going to get pirated.
And yeah it can get pirated for 360 just as well, but MS is pretty good at catching those people.
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First of all they actually went out of there way to make the game worse by building a PC match making system, they've done simple server lists in every PC version till now so the match making system actually took much more time and money than the standard method.
Secondly you need to remember there is a little game called MW1, the original is now better than the watered down new version so this means most people aren't going to migrate to the new game.
Lastly sales is a reason they shouldn't since while the 360 version sells more the profit from the PC Version is nothing to sneeze at topping the PS3 versions profits.
This post I originally made for DC337 will explain this clearer.
By mid January 2008 the PC version had sold 383 Thousand retail BOX copies, the data says in 2007 retail sales account for 14% of PC Game sales leaving 86% for digital distribution and monthly fees( And that was a growing trend so it is likely retail accounts for more like 10% today )
So if 383 thousand was roughly 14% of the PC Versions sales in the first 2 months of release then you can conclude in the first 2 months the PC Version sold
2.726 Million copies.
You can find more evidence to support the PC Version sold roughly that many copies in the fact that we know the ORANGE BOX on PC
( which heavily outsold the console versions )
SOURCE
Doug Lombari We were very happy with both the Xbox 360 and PS3 sales. I think the Xbox 360 version did just over a million, while the PS3 version did a few hundred thousand copies. So I think when all is said and done, The Orange Box will have sold about 1.5 million copies on the console, which is great. But the game's PC sales were much stronger.
This interview was done four and a half months after the release of Orange Box.
So lets be conservative and say when Doug said "But the game's PC sales were much stronger. " means the PC Version of Orange Box at that time had sold 2+ million. ( Though I would imagine "MUCH STRONGER" meant more like 3 million )
So now if you looked at the player/server count online of COD4 you would know the game is much, much more popular than the multiplayer aspect ( Team Fortress 2 ) of Orange box.
So with all this evidence considered my 2.7 million estimate sounds very accurate.
Now lets factor in the fact that Gabe Newell said on Half life 2 his company got 7 dollars for every box copy sold, while for every digital copy they got 4x as much, 28 dollars.
Now Valve owns steam so they obviously get a higher share of profits per digital copy than others do, but lets be conservative yet again and assume that Infinity Ward gets at least double the amount of money from each digitally sold copy of the game than it does from each 360/PS3/PC Retail boxed copy.
That means for 86% of the 2.7 million sold on PC in the first two months of the game being out it go double the amount of money out of each copy than it did on the retail boxes.
That means profit wise the PC 2.7 Million sales is equal to 5.05 Million console copies of the game sold and thats in the first two months. Not as much as the 360 version, but far more than you give PC Gaming credit for.
So 10x 
the facts say the 360 Version sold more like twice as much and the PC version is much more profitable than the PS3 version. So in reality dc the numbers you make up are just as bad as someone saying you need to buy a PC for 5 Grand to play PC Games
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