Getting a feel for the retail version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 before it releases is going to be a tall order, even for industrious folk. Earlier this weekend, developer Infinity Ward made it clear that it has zero plans for a pre-release demo in a tweet now being read around the world. “No plan for a demo before launch,” the studio told a fan asking about a demo. And why not? Polish concerns. “The entire team is focused on polish all the way up to ship of the full game,“ the studio continued in the tweet.
A multiplayer beta, for that matter, isn’t going to happen either. Infinity Ward has made that clear on several different occasions, but we like re-iterating it because it hurts people in profound ways.
But you weren’t going to bother with a silly demo, right?
[via NextGN]
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8:40 AM on 09.28.2009
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"I know it's modern warfare 2 and it shouldn't differ too much from the original, but no beta and now no demo? Sounds kind of shady to me..."
Oh well. You'll buy it anyway.
All the sheeple are buying this anyway. I will personally be trying to steal a copy as I want it so bad but don't want to allow my purchase to say "Hey activision, it's perfectly fine to charge £55 for a fucking game!"
Though a pre-release demo would likely win over some of those not yet converted.
I'd have that same ideology too, but I'd like to think at least half of it goes to IW, and that's who I'd really want to give my money to.
As much as I'd happily pay IW £40 directly, the only way available to us to communicate that we're not happy about a change in a capitalist society is not to accept it, not to buy it.
I do not want to look back at 2009 as the year that all games with mass appeal became £55. - I feel I will though. This game will sell at whatever price Activision set. They have the gaming community over a barrel.
IW can blame Kotick.
I'll probably wait for MAG, play some Uncharted 2 and Demon Souls in the mean time. - Demon Souls by the way - Fucking amazing.