Cerrius said:
No QA team is going to find everything and when you have a game as big as MW2 you can bet the house that the kiddos online will try and break every single thing imaginable. This is the biggest FPS release this gen and IW is a AAA studio , they get the benefit of the doubt from me. I'm sure these issues will soon be resolved and the world will keep turning.
As for Treyarch, they're a second-rate studio that works off of whatever Infinity Ward builds. Enough with the hyperbole.
There is really no excuse for the game being THIS glitchy. If anything, it shows that an "AAA" studio like IW should already be well aware how important the beta process is, considering it's what happened with the last two CoD games and that went swimmingly. They already knew how popular the game was going to end up and talked all about it, instead of actually preparing for all these people to get their hands on it.
My issues with the game also stem farther than the glitches. The balance with all the insane killstreaks, when you get the necessary materials(stinger) to combat these killstreaks is too far away. The starting levels suck ass because you can do nothing but run or die from them, the starting AA isn't even worth using. The game basically felt like a grind to level 25 to get cold blooded so you could finally stop getting destroyed by them, then once you got to 30 it was fine. But that was never something I felt in the other games, even if you got better guns later--level 1 never felt disadvantaged like it is here.
I also hate the design of most of the maps, some of the perks just add frustratingly effective class builds like the lag-abusing long range knifers, the obviously overpowered shotgunners, weird hit detection issues that always get hilariously highlighted by the slow-mo end of match kill, etc. Even stuff from CoD4 like getting thrown into games just about to end haven't been fixed...oh, and I didn't even touch on the plethora of bullshit that went on with the PC release.
So I find it hard to swallow that Treyarch is just a second rate studio riding IW's coattails. I had a much better time with both the SP and MP with WaW than MW2 has provided. Not to mention they had cool modes like Nazi Zombies and ACTUALLY SUPPORTED THE GAME, unlike IW with 4. They have map packs for MW2 announced, but even now when the game is in this hilariously bad condition full of glitches and broken matchmaking, they are BARELY saying anything or keeping people up to date on what's happening. Just the occasional twitter update to let you know they are aware of it.
