But maybe IW can actually give us a demo/beta, instead of assuming their game was flawless and would be successful, next time.
And this is one of the ways they went wrong.
They didn't want to give a beta because...
1: It keeps people wondering what the game will be like, and they won't know until launch.
2: They said they can get more data out of a closed dev beta.
3: Because they think they're too good and thought of everything.
Yea, for them a closed beta might have worked out best. But for the players... not so much. See, them dev people weren't going to play like a bunch of spineless kids who are scared to die in a game. They didn't camp the whole time, or camp in dark corners with a heartbeat (HBS), or didn't tube 90% of the time, or didn't camp with AOM and tube the whole time, they didn't sit back and go after kills on gametypes such as HQ. These people are people I'd love to play against, people who play the game right. But IW thought that everyone would play right. If we had a beta I don't think we'd have OMA (or at least as bad), we wouldn't have nuke boosters, we wouldn't have such bad campers, and so on.
If we had a beta they could have seen that people camped with an HBS (that's where it started, people had that at the start and said "Wow... I can just wait for them to come to me" and when the people who got killed by it got an HBS they camped and it went on), we would have seen that tac inserts were a tool just for boosters, we would have seen riot shields being a big prob, Commando, Danger Closer, Marathon (I use Marathon, but it should be extra sprint, not unlimited). Should I go on? Yea, lets do... OMA + tubes, Last Stand's Pro perk, Painkiller, Final Stand, the crappy Killstreaks, the weapons with broken ADS, game modes, out of the map glitches, servers, host probs/lag, spawns, spawn tubes, no party chat. Did I miss anything? I'm sure all of you can add on to that list.
I know it's not IW, it's the players. But the thing is, they gave the players the tools to be bad players. I used to not be able to stand tubes, I was one who just saw it as a waste of an attachment, and you were n00bish if you had to tube. You can ask Alex (and if he doesn't pull one of his "THAT's A LIE" things on you XD), I never tubed on WaW, I hit 10th safely saying I killed almost no one with a tube (it wasn't in my classes, people who we played it all the time wanted to teach me how to spawn tube and I wouldn't do it). But on MW2 I have 3 classes with a tube on it, not because I think it's funny, or because I wanted to do something new. But because I got fed up of people sending tubes my way, people camping in corners you can't get to without dying. If IW didn't turn everyone into campers, and tubers I wouldn't need them 3 tube classes. And I'm sure lots of people would say the same thing, they only have them classes, they only camp because others do it to them. And I'm sure someone is going to read this and think "Well, why don't you stop playing like that and others will as well", doesn't work like that. Yea, I would stop, right now, right this moment if everyone played right. But one person isn't going to make that much of a difference, not when the whole community is already shot to hell.
MW2 is good when it works, when the players play right, but the game is broken. And if you think otherwise you don't know what you're talking about. I've got 16 hours on the game, and 9th prestige. Chances are, I've got more time and a higher level then you. And so I think I know the game a little better then a 3rd.... 4th... 5th... prestige who thinks it's fine, and loves to camp. I love the game, but they aren't doing anything to fix it. They have their heads stuck so far up their asses that they can't see the light of day, and the screams of players who plays the game. This is Robby B's latest tweet
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Behold! The power of feedback. We'll be integrating the new maps into all playlists as well as enabling Double XP for all playlists tomorrow"
Yea, and he also said they listen to the players, and the tweets, and the feedback, and yet I still see boosters, I still see the FAL with a broken RDS, I still get spawn tubed, I still get spawn killed, I still get commandoeed, I still don't see a normal Team Tac, I still get final standed, and so on.
Yea, the game is broken, yea the game is overrated, yea sucks that I like playing it. That's my little rant for the night.