[FOOT] MW2 Thread

[JayDizzle]

No consistant on-line support makes me a sad panda... and it makes me feel like a broken record saying how much it sucks that the shit doesn't work.

I'm in the boat with Twigg on Spec-Op missions in that I have about 5 people that I know I can trust to have a good time with the mode (due to UC2 connections) and I can't play with them.

Please IW, I don't want to go back to play UC2 online for a week because of this.

[GridironWarrior]

Yeah I got worked online but had fun. Any of you guys can add me, be nice to play with you and learn from ya. I'm Enop80 on PSN. I tried adding Herm as a friend but his list is full.

[Jagsfan61]

SHIT its down

how long has it been down now?

[JayDizzle]

SHIT its down

how long has it been down now?

Since today.

They put in a new patch and are creating new servers since they were too stupid to realize that almost everyone and their Grandmother was going to play this game online.

[Blade]

Since today.

They put in a new patch and are creating new servers since they were too stupid to realize that almost everyone and their Grandmother was going to play this game online.

LOL........no wonder they said "We highly recommend you play SP first" when I selected MP as soon as I put in the game for the first time! LOL.

This happened last time too, I was expecting shit like this to go down. Thats why I am not overly dissapointed by this. I don't blame IW for the problem though. My team at work has been trying to put a software in production for 2.5 years now, but the damn thing is horribly constructed by the company we purchased it from, so we have had delays for 9 months now.

You can test all you want, on your on networks and blah blah blah, but you can never anticipate how your software will run when a quarter of a million people are ready to rock.

[Jax]

Yeah down since i woke up beat campaign just doing Spec Ops now.

Blade we should run Spec Ops later when it gets back

[JayDizzle]

You can test all you want, on your on networks and blah blah blah, but you can never anticipate how your software will run when a quarter of a million people are ready to rock.

If it were up to me, I would have asked for more servers and better coverage on the online portion from the folks who pay us.

They should know that since online gaming is where it's at right now, that more time and resources should be spent on it.

NOT "We highly recommended that you play SP first."

[Blade]

If it were up to me, I would have asked for more servers and better coverage on the online portion from the folks who pay us.

They should know that since online gaming is where it's at right now, that more time and resources should be spent on it.

NOT "We highly recommended that you play SP first."

You get a set budget for each project bro. For our project $4 million was alloted. We are in the $6 million range now. Since we went over budget now we have pay team members on our team by syphoning funds from another project, which affects the books for that project team's manager. There are lot of economic reasons, why you only get set amount of resources to work with especially in this economy. There's projects in my company that need 20 SAT testers, but only have 3 available for the whole project. Its crazy right now.

[JBauerisGod]

I really didn't expect any less from the launch. I'm just glad we were able to get in at least one full day of gaming before the servers exploded.

They can only test for so many things without doing a public beta. IW only had estimates on server load before they launched. It was impossible to know exactly how the servers would react once you get 300k people on playing at the same time.

[CrimsonGhost56]

You get a set budget for each project bro. For our project $4 million was alloted. We are in the $6 million range now. Since we went over budget now we have pay team members on our team by syphoning funds from another project, which affects the books for that project team's manager. There are lot of economic reasons, why you only get set amount of resources to work with especially in this economy. There's projects in my company that need 20 SAT testers, but only have 3 available for the whole project. Its crazy right now.

just gonna take a wild guess here but im sure activision gave IW MORE than enough money to cover all their bases. not like this is the biggest video game release in years or anything

[Vinsane]

I really didn't expect any less from the launch. I'm just glad we were able to get in at least one full day of gaming before the servers exploded.

No, no, no, no, and no.

Fuck that, I traded in three games to get this. I expect online to work, one full day does not warrant having to sit with nothing but SP to do. So now I'm stuck with either playing through the horribly short SP, or just going back to one of the other two games I have. There's no excuse for a game to not work to it's full potential.

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Bowling said he'll post on twitter immediately when they put them back up

[Blade]

just gonna take a wild guess here but im sure activision gave IW MORE than enough money to cover all their bases. not like this is the biggest video game release in years or anything

For us programmers theres never enough money in software development

Cuz what we end up doing is just stuff that enhances the product that costs more money LOL

I think the business group, limits the cash flow, cuz they know we will go ape shit

[JayDizzle]

No, no, no, no, and no.

Fuck that, I traded in three games to get this. I expect online to work, one full day does not warrant having to sit with nothing but SP to do. So now I'm stuck with either playing through the horribly short SP, or just going back to one of the other two games I have. There's no excuse for a game to not work to it's full potential.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aJROW6cuEM"]IW still gets your money[/ame]

[JBauerisGod]

No, no, no, no, and no.

Fuck that, I traded in three games to get this. I expect online to work, one full day does not warrant having to sit with nothing but SP to do. So now I'm stuck with either playing through the horribly short SP, or just going back to one of the other two games I have. There's no excuse for a game to not work to it's full potential.

This happens with EVERY major online release. It would have been fantastic if they would have actually been able to keep the servers chugging along, but they didn't. It happens.

If they would have released the game next week, we would be in the exact same boat as we are now. It's impossible to know exactly how their servers would react when 300k people were on simultaneously, unless they had released a public beta.