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Originally Posted by Russic
Wow. The pirates sure pissed of IW. I guess you all get to suffer for it. Pretty obvious they don't care much for PC users anymore.
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They all love to blame this sort of stuff of piracy, but at the end of the day it's not as major issue as they claim it is. COD4 sold very well on the PC and yet they reward the PC market with a higher price tag (higher than any of PC game on the market too) and significantly less features.
Companies just use piracy as an excuse to scale down PC versions or even not release the game altogether as they're more interested in pumping out sequels with a new coat of paint that the console market eats up.
What this all comes down to is that COD4 sold too well and the PC market has carried the COD franchise too long for Activision to simply not release MW2 on the PC. So they up the price, gimp the game significantly and watch the sales plummet. Now when MW3 comes out (and it will) Activision will be whining about how poor MW2 sold on PC (due to piracy obviously) and it will be console exclusive.