Controversy Doesn’t Affect MW2 Pre-Sales

No suprised just because a bunch of old people whine and bitch about something dont understand doesnt mean anyone isnt going to preorder the game.

Never underestimate the power of idiots in large amounts.

Somebody brought it into the student lounge at school the other day, and after playing it, I wasn't impressed one single bit. I would file MW2 into the "Rent it" category. It's the same old crap in a different wrapper. Activision has become the next EA, no question about it.

It has NOT changed my mind of wanting to get the game. I have already reserved my limited edition xbox360 with it. The new 360 w/it. & I am anticipating to play it!

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I expect MW2 will sell pretty well on its own, regardless of the hype surrounding it.  Assuming it works fine out of box, I've heard it has a good story.  If its anything like COD4:MW, the game play for single player will be non-stop intensive action.  The multiplayer (in what ever form it takes, will be also alot of fun).

Of course, there will be groups that come out of the woodwork, saying this game is horrible and evil.  That it desentises children, and that would lead to school or mall shootings from copy cats.  The truth as most of us know is, there is no real factual studies that give this concept credibility.  The reason why groups and organizations (i.e. Fox News) will bring something like this, is to get their name in the news.  Just a bunch of idiots looking for something to stroke their fragile ego's.  That's all it really is: ego's.

Kids will see alot of things in their lives before they hit adulthood.  Drugs, death, disease, pain, suffering, and every other scourge mankind can think up.  Its in movies, literature, and every other form of medium mankind has created over its lifetime.  The role of us, as adults, is to teach correctly.  A game like MW2, could be used, as a teaching tool about life, in a controlled setting.  Or, we can demonize it, and force kids to learn about life the ultra hard way: up close and personal.  And as any of us know, that's often surrounded in tradegy.

Now, in COD4:MW2, there is a scene that the player can do something asa terrorists or in some way, behave as bloodthirsty and criminal as possible.  I dont know the scene, beyond what I've heard.  When I play the game, I'll make my own judgement.  But that is how a educated person should look at a story.  In addition, an educated person would look at what came before, as perhaps, a guideline.  In COD4, players got to see a nuclear bomb blowing up while in a chopper.  The scene after that, of the marine, shows that he survived the crash, only to craw out of the chopper, see the mushroom shaped cloud and die.  I thought that scene was both amazing and sad.  Amazing that such a scene was 'in my face', the detail of destruction, and the knowing (by the breathing) that the marine was in serious if not critical condition.  Sad, because he died, and there was nothing I, the player could do about it.

We could take that scene, and use it as a teaching tool, or demonize it.  Which sounds like the adult and mature way, and which is the children and immature way?  The game is rated 'M' for a reason.  Its mature content.  If children are playing it, then the blame falls directly to the parents or the guardians to explain themselves.

Part of me wants to laugh, the other just wants to cry.

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I once had a dream about God. In it, he was looking down upon the planet and the havoc we recked and he said unto us, "Damn Kids get off my lawn!"

I don't think we can really say the controversies haven't affected sales. We don't know what sales would have been like otherwise. They may have been substantially higher.

To be honest, as a platform for FPS, the PC is fading (which is, from my perspective, a good thing, the market is far over-saturated), which possibly explains the lower sales, the PC seems to be expanding more into games such as Management/God games, or RPG's, both of which can be difficult to implement on a console because of the limited input options on a basic system.

The FPS market for the PC is a long way from dead, but, personally, I'm glad to see less interest in 'point and shoot' games emerging for it, it really had turned into a case of 'same game, different graphics'.

Why hasn't fox made a big deal yet?????