From Hero To Zero, Asswipes

It’s already old news that Infinity Ward, the developer of the highly anticipated First Person Shooter, Modern Warfare 2, had grabbed PC gamers by the balls and squeezed by announcing that their sixth game in the franchise will not support dedicated servers. Instead, the developer has opted for a new p2p system called IW.net, which, among other things, will use Steam’s VAC security software to block hackers and cheaters from the multiplayer aspect of the game.

More recently, Best Buy hosted an online Q&A between gamers and a couple of the IW developers with hopes on creating a clearer picture of what to expect from the game. This lead to an even grimmer look at a game that is now only two days away. Yes, Infinity Ward had PC gamers by the balls and squeezed, and now the fuckers are twisting them.

And this is what I mean: During the Q&A, the poor PC gamers found out that, along with no dedicated server support, the PC version of the game will only support 9 versus 9. This number pales in comparison to the 32 versus 32 in the previous Modern Warfare game. Also, the gamers found out that there would not be a console where the host can tweak aspects of the game such as weapon damage, etc.

And one of the worst things to find out about the multiplayer game is that, on this p2p infrastructure, players will not be able to choose who hosts the game, the game will decide based on a given player’s internet connection. So players who have the best upstream bandwidth should be selected as hosts. And players can’t opt out of hosting a game either, unless they were to completely remove themselves from the game. And if a host quits in the middle of a game session, there will be a 5 second delay that will pause the game for that period of time while the game finds another player in that session to host. This pause will suck when a player is in the middle of a, let us say a kill streak, and the flow of the game is interrupted for this host seeking process to take effect.

All us gamers have probably heard rumors over the last few years that PC gaming is dying. And when I thought of that, I always assumed the culprit would be the gamer, who opted for console gaming either for financial reasons because they could not afford a good PC, or because of simple preference. But I am seeing now that the culprit is also the developers. I see no reason for stripping down the multiplayer PC version, other than the fact that, in the end, it is really all about profitability, and not about the passion to put out a game you are proud of making because ultimately you are making the gamers happy, rather you settle for money first. And that right there is really sad.

This is Christian Del Amo: A Fucktard thats about to get fucked for real, in prison.

I like video games, all kinds: Role Playing, First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, etc. for the PC, Xbox, and Wii. And I have an extensive collection, upwards of eighty or so of what most people would agree are the best ever developed, that I have collected over the years.

Anyone who has a passion for video games might also have dabbled in modding their favorite PC games in one way or another with the digital tools offered along with the game. Modding isn’t easy, it takes intelligence, creativity, dedication, and most of all, it takes time.

If it takes so much blood, sweat and tears and time for an enthusiast to create a mod for a game, imagine what the original developers of the game went through. It takes years to develop most of these games, and the developers have taken so much time away from their selves and their families.

So after all that dedication and time, guess what happens. I will tell you. Hundreds of fucking dip shit punks are out there ripping and illegally downloading thousands of digital copies of these games. These punks might as well shit directly on the heads of the people who make the games, because that is how it feels: to be shit on for your hard work.

Listen, I bring this all up because recently I learned of this eighteen-year-old douche bag, Christian Del Amo, who got a hold of a leaked copy of the highly anticipated FPS, Modern Warfare 2, and planned to sell thousands of pirated copies of the game to unscrupulous individuals.

I am not trying to preach, but piracy is no different from any other kind of theft. The fucker I mentioned here was caught and arrested, thankfully. And I hope his thieving ass gets raped real hard in prison by his new daddy.

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I like to play multiplayer video games on my PC and Xbox 360. I always hear or see in the chat box the words “nigger” or “dirty mexican”.  The gamers say these words so casually.

When I hear these utterances I wonder if there are Hispanics or Blacks on the game seeing or hearing this. And then I feel all awkward and wonder if  a black person is going to start screaming defensively into the microphone, but it hasn’t happened yet. It’s funny how the other gamers ignore/tolerate the words. So I wonder if it’s mostly white people who play these games.

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