Just so you'll know I canceled my pre-order of Modern Warfare 2, because of the crap PC gamers had to put up with. These morons don't know who they're screwing with! You can't pass lame stuff like that on PC gamers you dumb nubs. And now you're gonna pay. Good job throwing money away. Yeah sure console gamers will buy your game because it's designed for consoles in the first damn place, but you lost a great deal of money from PC sales.
And don't tell me 'Lol like they care... they sold like 1.5m copies in a day. It's the best selling game ever'. To that I say that it could have been 2.5m or even 3m.
Think I'm wrong? let's do some math ok?
According to the PC Gaming Alliance, there are around 100 million PC gamers with good PC's that can run the latest games with good performances around the world.
Now, just to please all you 'PC Gamers = Pirates' thinking people out there, let's assume that like... 60% of the 100 million PC gamers are pirates who will never buy a PC game. So that leaves 40% of legit owners.
40% of 100 million is 40 million gamers. Now let's assume, since Modern Warfare 2 is the biggest game of the year, 60% of these 40 million gamers were interested in this game, shall we? 60% out of 40 million is 24 million.
So that's 24 million gamers who are interested in buying Modern Warfare 2 on the PC. Let's assume 10% of them are from the US, since PC gaming is not as strong on the US as it is on the rest of the world. So that's 2.4 million gamers.
Now, after that crap they did, let's assume that out of these 2.4 million gamers, only 5% of them bought this pathetic excuse of a PC port. And if you Don't think the % of the people who bought it is that low, just see how PC gamers review this game on various sites (IGN, Gamespot, and even GT which is mainly a console gamers site).
So the final sales figure: 12,000 copies.
Keep in mind that I'm not talking about 1 week sales, I'm talking about a figure which will be reached after a few months of release. So that means that the PC version of this game probably sold like 100k copies so far.
So after a few months of this game being released, IW and Activison could get at least 24 million sales out of the PC. It sounds like a huge number. 2 huge to be true, I know. but that IS the truth. You just never hear about PC figures because most sales go through steam or Direct2Drive or various other online shops, but the fact is... that Activision and IW spitted in the face of the gamers of the biggest platform there is. Maybe it's because of past experience they had with the PC (Call of duty 4 pirate issue) but it doesn't matter. Cod4 wasn't a high profile game on release. This was. Big difference.
So yes, my math is probably off. I'm not a pro at making sales statistics and estimates, true, but it's just to give you an idea on how stupid IW and Activision really are.
Even if I'm 50% off here, that's still 1.2 million sales from the PC...
To sum it all up for you, Activison and IW: You screwed up. And now you're paying for it. But us PC gamers sure aint gonna be paying for it. I'm not gonna be paying $60 (Which is the most expensive PC game out there now....) for a game that barely deserves the $29.99 price tag. Maybe when it'll reach this price (And it will for the PC, believe me...) I'll buy it.
How dare you even charge $60 for that game? How dare you make your game the most expensive one on the PC when it's 1 of the most mediocre PC shooters that's been released this year? This is the result of a HUGE ego right there folks. This is what hype does to game developers. When everyone keeps saying 'This is gonna be the game of the year' to a game developer, you can bet your ass his ego would be huge.
Goto hell Infinity Ward. You too Activison, You know what you can do with your Modern Warfare 2. I wouldn't even use pirating method to play it, because it's not even worth that effort.
Oh and... You also know where you can shove that online system of yours... Freaking joke.
P.S: Sorry if i made math mistakes, but you get my point... I'm not a math genius. Sue me! :P
P.S.S: I do not support pirating in any way. It was just my way to say I don't want this game on my PC in any way. But even if it's a horrible game, don't pirate it.
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