They say you learn from your mistakes. My CF's, if you will, sometimes are mistakes, sometimes are not. For example, I learned a long time ago if I don't want to get rudely woken up, I should turn my fire pager off (something I will never do.) I learned that I should never, ever get as drunk as I did at WSVG 2007. I learned never to start my backup QB over Aaron Rogers if I can avoid it. I also learned that Activision is a money grubbing tycoon who won't listen. Have you learned that yet?
Lets review some of the things we've found out about Activision in say, oh I don't know the past week. We've learned that IW.net is apparently spreading a trojan because of being hacked. (see: source) Oh sure, blame that one on us hacking the game to put in record. We've learned that MW2 has not only a hidden gametype, but hidden maps (see: source) And we've learned that iw plans on eventually making the multiplayer pay to play. (see: source)
They say every blunder is a learning opportunity in disguise. For example. Child gets stung by bee. Child learns bees are not a thing to mess with, and avoid them in the future. So how is it that a child can learn better than we can? We're supposed to learn from our mistakes and yet we keep trudging on blindly convinced that some great thing will happen to this game. And yet IW has proven to us that we make up a fraction of the opinions they listen to, and generally we are ignored.
Who's to say they planned on making us purchase these new game types? I'm no Nostradamus mind you, so I'm not going to throw that out there but it does strike me odd that not only would they lock away new game types, new maps, BUT THE ABILITY TO RECORD, HAVE CONSOLE AND DEDICATED SERVERS too. We hung treyarch out to dry for similar blunders, and now, with treyarch wanting our help we're ignoring them still. How do we not do the same thing to IW?
And no, I do not own the game. Yes, I have played it. And I will agree it is amazingly fun to pub. I love the ideas of ctf almost as much as I love trying to eliminate certain red haired freckle faced people from my fantasy football league. (Not naming any names but you know who you are.) But seriously, why do you guys think we can push forward without a record function?
A certain admin who I hold in high regard told me he didn't think record mattered. I told him to start his league, and I will just glitch the shit out of everything and good luck proving it.
Seriously people, have we lost our common sense? Are we that blind by a false sense of hope?
I fully hope the game does get fixed for competition. I agree everyone's tired of CoD4 and needs a breather or something new. But is a demoless, serverless game really the place to go to?
All I'm saying people is to open your eyes and think about it. Stop being blinded by how fun the game is to pub and think about how upset you will be after you get screwed in a match and we have no way of proving it.
At any rate, that's my rant on that. Here's a few other things to take interest in.
I finally put down dragon age : origins. No, I have not beaten it yet. However my roommate bought Assassin's Creed 2 and so far it has been addicting. They even reference that pesky red hatted plumber, who does that?! (See : It'sa me, Mario!)
The game has been thoroughly entertaining for the most part so far. In the first installment of the series, I became bored very easily. Everything was repetitious after a while. Same moves, same everything. So far I've been pleasantly surprised by still finding things to do, although I'm sure at some point things will become repetitious.
L4D2 is here! Its a blast to play, and valve might be on to something with the scavenge mode. Iw, take a hint from these guys on how to run your shit correctly. CEVO is hosting a versus and a scavenge tourny for l4d, so make sure you check it out here. How can you go wrong with free entry? You can't. And just like the last l4d installment, some of the better cod teams are hopping over to play this as well. (Loaded and a few others) The game will be played almost out of the box, just with a ready up mod. I highly recommend playing it.
We're working on another cod4 tourny for now, be patient. I've decided to make it back to mr12 again. Part of me thinks that people get annoyed playing cod4 now because it takes so damn long to finish a match. Like I said, I try to learn from my mistakes, this was one of them. It'll still be knockout mode, but just mr12 now. Also we're including some maps like toujane and powcamp which will be sure to be entertaining.
Dragon's Age still kicks ass. There's an accomplishment on ps3 for getting busy with all the main characters, how sad is that? Lots of blood and guts and a cool dog. No airport terrorist scene though.
Avatar (the movie) a new final fantasy game, Star Wars The Old Republic are all supposedly somewhere around the corner. As if I don't have enough games to play already! I will be going republic in SWTOR, saying that now.
Thats really all the ranting I have for now. Remember, IW is currently a bane on our existance. A giant CF that gives us nothing but headaches. Show yourself to be smarter than a 6th grader and learn that you shouldn't do something that won't be beneficial to you. Is it fun to play? Yes. Absolutely. Will it work in leagues? No, it won't. So swat that proverbial bee and don't let it sting you or get you into a CF.
Nice Read.
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