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word. picking this up on PC but happy I own a PS3 as well.

awesome.

Here's something else that will be awesome: COD4 map makers recreating MW2 maps for COD4! Go to hell MW2.

^^^^ You guys are pathetic.

The imagination of a good novelist is exactly what video games need. Though Empire wasn't that great of a novel, I did finish it and it set things up for a wonderful series of games/movies/books.

>>Video game longevity are due in part to COMMUNITIES. Groups of clanmates and regulars that congregate regularly on a specific server creates a community of players which is extremely resilient to time. This experience cannot be replaced by "friends lists."

For me, this explains it all and is the part that pisses me off the most. I don't care about mods.

I'm in a community of 100+ people who regularly play on a single server for COD4. When I want to play I jump on that server and play with whoever of my friends that are online and whoever else happened upon that server. I don't want to have to worry about setting up friends lists and then private games.

If another friend gets on will they be able to jump in and play or will we have to back out to let that friend in? Either way, I don't want to dick with friend's lists.

"they stated the only thing they lose in this new setup is playing on servers with third party mods" I don't care about third party mods. I have never used them and this still rubs me wrong.

The whole thing is stupid as hell. Just allow both options. L4D on steam does it nicely.

I don't mind my Storm. If they can fix the few things I don't like with it, the storm 2 could be awesome.

My favorite part about PC FPS (aside from the controls) is the community that spawns and grows around a server for a game. Usually when I get involved in a PC FPS online I find a couple good servers and play them hard. After a while you get to know the people on there, get involved in the forums, etc. Matchmaking has it's place, but dedicated servers have a bigger place.

winner winner chicken dinner

I don't think it's up to the game to provide good guild content. The raids are one thing, but it's up to the guild to make a good guild experience. I ran a wow guild years ago before Burning Crusade. Ah it was a beautiful time. Wow wasn't the loot grab that it is now. It took me forever to get to level 60 because of all the cool things that we were doing as a guild.

Here's a quick example. Our guild was called the Keepers of Might and one week we had a guild event that we organized and managed through our website called the Week of Might. Each day an officer presented an event where members of the guild could compete in game and out of game. There were races, screenshots showing how mighty you were, duel contests, etc... all with prizes. Our guild members were awesome and though the guild has long since gone, some of us still reminisce about the good old times with Keepers of Might.

Now days in WoW (only as an example) everyone is too focused on farming honor,badges,dungeons,marks,gold,etc... to get the next piece of epic lootz that they stop enjoying the massively part of MMO gaming... which really sucks. That is the only thing I HATE about wow now. It didn't used to be that way.

I played WAR during beta and immediately at launch and lasted about 3 months before unsubscribing. Ultimately WAR would be my MMO of choice if only some of my real life friends and co-workers would play it. They're too busy farming whatever in WoW. For the 3 months I played WAR I played solo except for the few people I met in game. I never developed any good friendships. Unfortunately for me, most MMOs will never be able to keep me in for the long run as long as WoW keeps my lazy friends' attention.

But... good write up. It made me want to resub and try it out again. Hopefully my rank 25 shaman still exists.