WOW... you may not like it, or maybe you do...but money like that for 1 game has got to be good for our economy... and please don't tell me Activision is French or Russian or something, lol...

http://worthplaying.com/article/2009/11/18/news/70312/

$550,000,000.00 in 5 days! Holey moley!

Well, I have good news and bad news.

The good news is, Activision is American

The bad news, is that it's majority owned by the French conglomerate Vivendi.

Source: Wiki

Strictly speaking, no it's not good.

That much money became concentrated in the hands of a few. Now you may say it goes to the stock holders and there are lots of them. True, but only a few have significant holdings and a fecking boatload of it when to their jackbooted CEO who can choke on it for all I care. These two parties amass fortunes and generally don't spend it so it becomes idle money. It used to be that customers dictated the direction of the industry. Now the money has gotten so incredibly large that the robber barons are taking over management of the publishers and distributors and dictating terms to us.

I know my refusal to purchase the travesty that is MW2 is nothing to them, but it's everything to me. I won't support them now and I will be openly rooting for their failure if this is the path that they are going to follow in in the future.

We got hosed and 10 million people didnt even realize it and alot of them took it with a smile, too.

Sad.

It's only been 2 weeks but I'd say I got my 60 bucks worth... no regrets here.

Robber barons? Jackboots? A little over the top with the melodrama maybe?

I'm with Magnum, 60 bucks well spent. I didn't get hosed, I doubt the few million folks playing it online every day feel like it either.

The mulitplayer matching/communications/managment is simply a joke.

A pity because it could have beat the original, the maps are excellent.

it just sucks that games with almost no substance can sell so high but better games (both gameplay/longevity) barely make a mark. This just encourages more companies to make mindless shooters with flashy graphics.
But I guess it's no suprise when you see movies like Transformers 2 and 2012 killing at the box office

Well, I gave in and bought it... After all my annoyance at the ded. servers etc I finally tried a friends and went and bought it.

I am really enjoying the SP, just on the Gulag mission. It's even more like playing a movie than COD4 and it's a good thing as I loved COD4.

Now onto the MP. I have not had any problems or bad pings at all and the maps are great so I made a big noise over nothing (nothing new there!).

Thing is I found it at Tesco's for £29 which is great but I would not pay £40 for any game.

try the spec ops missions with a friend... now thats the icing on the cake.