{"id":38419,"date":"2009-11-09T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091105\/1125476808.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-09T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T12:02:00","slug":"modern-warfare-2-shows-how-to-piss-off-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/38419","title":{"rendered":"Modern Warfare 2 Shows How To Piss Off Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=william\">william<\/a> was the first of a few of you to send in this story about how Infinity Ward seems to have decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2009\/11\/pc-modern-warfare-2-its-much-worse-than-you-thought.ars\" >piss off a bunch of fans<\/a> of the upcoming <i>Modern Warfare 2<\/i> by not allowing dedicated game servers, limiting the number of players for PC-based multiplayer games and other limiting features.  In one telling quote, one of the game&#8217;s designers was asked about whether or not a certain feature would be enabled to allow players to change their field of view, and was told:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nWe would like you to play the game the way we designed and balanced it.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, that&#8217;s fair enough, but if those fans don&#8217;t want to play the game that way, they&#8217;re not going to play it at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091105\/1125476808.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091105\/1125476808.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091105\/1125476808&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=74bcf0fbb1c21b55c1fa1a41cd98edad&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=74bcf0fbb1c21b55c1fa1a41cd98edad&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=ICGoyaj7Teg:7Gp4PVHwo8k:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=ICGoyaj7Teg:7Gp4PVHwo8k:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=ICGoyaj7Teg:7Gp4PVHwo8k:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/ICGoyaj7Teg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>william was the first of a few of you to send in this story about how Infinity Ward seems to have decided to piss off a bunch of fans of the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 by not allowing dedicated game servers, limiting the number of players for PC-based multiplayer games and other limiting features. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}