PC Gamers, Stop Accepting Mediocre Console Ports

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is another example of the lack of consideration publishers are showing towards the PC gaming community. The omission of dedicated servers outraged a very vocal group of gamers, so much so that they started a group to boycott the game. Most of these same people went ahead and bought the game. They just had to have the latest iteration of the Call of Duty series and forgot about principle.

Sales were astronomical for the game which would hint to the fact this is what gamers wanted. I look at it from another angle. To me it seems the game was purchased en masse in spite these shortcomings merely because the series is so widely popular. The game probably would have sold much better on pc if they did some work on providing pc gamers some unique content that most PC gamers wanted.

What this whole thing shows, to me, is that PC gamers are as divided as just about any other demographic you can think of. Sure, they talked a good game but when it came down to it they backed off and bought Modern Warfare 2 for the PC. I wasn’t a part of the boycott but I bought the game as well, so at the very least you can’t call me a hypocrite.

One other thing that was a sore spot was the fact that the pc version of MW2 was essentially exactly the same as the console versions. Infinity Ward treated the PC as a third console. Sure the game looks a lot better but it’s the same as the xbox 360 version. An inexcusable carry over from the console is the tiny online player limit. I understand why you have to do something like that for the PS3, but not for the PC.

It’s time for pc gamers to demand better, to effectively “vote” for the kinds of features we want with our dollars. Buy games that are PC specific or at least provide features that consoles don’t have because the PC isn’t as limited as the Xbox 360 or PS3 hardware wise.

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