wraggster
April 1st, 2012, 21:55
A group of players unhappy with Activision and Infinity Ward's post launch support for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (http://www.edge-online.com/filter/all/tags/488) are calling on the wider community to join them in not playing the game for a day in protest.
Revealed in a YouTube video, the campaign urges players to refrain from playing Modern Warfare 3 online for 24 hours on April 20, and lays out a litany of problems with the game that its developer has thusfar declined to fix.
"This is a call to action to the Call Of Duty community," organisers explain in the video. "Join us and your fellow Call Of Duty players as we take a stand against Activision and Infinity Ward for their lack of support towards the community's needs and concerns.
"We have been ignored repeatedly when asking for quality post-release fixes to be implemented," it continues, before outlining several concerns including lag compensation, a "broken" spawn system, and a paucity of playlist options, especially for members of the Elite (http://www.edge-online.com/filter/all/tags/2292) subscription service.
It all hinges on comments made by Robert Bowling, who until his resignation earlier this week was Infinity Ward's creative strategist (http://www.edge-online.com/news/call-duty-creative-strategist-robert-bowling-resigns). In an interview with MCV (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/interview-rob-bowling-part-1-we-compete-with-ourselves) last year, he promised "an extreme focus on post-launch support MW3], and that was baked into the way we designed the game.
"We've baked a lot of things into the back end which will allow us to do the free updates, addressing player concerns, [and] adding stuff to the game more quickly and efficiently than we've ever done before."
That, the video producers claim, simply hasn't happened, and MW3suffers in comparison to its Treyarch-developed predecessor,Black Ops. That had a fully-featured replay mode, and displayed more detailed stats on scoreboards in objective games; two features whose absence is so lamented in the campaign video.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/unhappy-modern-warfare-players-plan-day-long-blackout
Revealed in a YouTube video, the campaign urges players to refrain from playing Modern Warfare 3 online for 24 hours on April 20, and lays out a litany of problems with the game that its developer has thusfar declined to fix.
"This is a call to action to the Call Of Duty community," organisers explain in the video. "Join us and your fellow Call Of Duty players as we take a stand against Activision and Infinity Ward for their lack of support towards the community's needs and concerns.
"We have been ignored repeatedly when asking for quality post-release fixes to be implemented," it continues, before outlining several concerns including lag compensation, a "broken" spawn system, and a paucity of playlist options, especially for members of the Elite (http://www.edge-online.com/filter/all/tags/2292) subscription service.
It all hinges on comments made by Robert Bowling, who until his resignation earlier this week was Infinity Ward's creative strategist (http://www.edge-online.com/news/call-duty-creative-strategist-robert-bowling-resigns). In an interview with MCV (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/interview-rob-bowling-part-1-we-compete-with-ourselves) last year, he promised "an extreme focus on post-launch support MW3], and that was baked into the way we designed the game.
"We've baked a lot of things into the back end which will allow us to do the free updates, addressing player concerns, [and] adding stuff to the game more quickly and efficiently than we've ever done before."
That, the video producers claim, simply hasn't happened, and MW3suffers in comparison to its Treyarch-developed predecessor,Black Ops. That had a fully-featured replay mode, and displayed more detailed stats on scoreboards in objective games; two features whose absence is so lamented in the campaign video.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/unhappy-modern-warfare-players-plan-day-long-blackout