As I was going through my old copies of the New York Times, I thought I’d look in the arts section as I heard they wrote a review on Modern Warfare 2. Everything in the review was pretty decent until I ran into this phrase.
Some Windows players are upset that they cannot set up their own Modern Warfare 2 servers, but that is the way the industry is going; they need to just get over it.
From reading this phrase it is quite obvious that the writers of the New York Times are incompetent when it comes to writing about games. For as long as I can remember, major PC games have always supported dedicated servers. When I was 10 years old and began to play Quake III, I always had a server that I could play on with friends. It was almost like a little community of people who you would play with everyday. Although you didn’t “know” them, it was always fun to talk and play on the same server as them.
Although I’ve stopped playing PC games, I have fond memories of a few Counter Strike: Source pubs that I would join everyday. It was always fun to have a laugh with everyone playing because there was that “bond” that I can’t quite explain. To get rid of dedicated servers is to tear up the foundation of PC gaming online.
In addition, I completely forgot about the most important part of dedicated servers – the mods. If any of you have even explored the vast amount of mods for any popular FPS (Half Life, Unreal Tournament, Quake III), you would realize how crucial dedicated servers are. Here’s a fun fact for all of the readers. If we didn’t have dedicated servers, there would be no Counter Strike or Team Fortress. Both games were developed by fans and drew such a huge following that Valve made them into official retail games.
While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I feel that the NYT’s comment was utterly ridiculous. Without anything to back up their statement, they are making themselves look ignorant to the gaming world. I do realize that you don’t read the paper for a game review; however, it would be nice to see a little knowledge before such comments are made.
If you would like to read the whole review click here
You don’t come here for breaking political news and you don’t go to CNN for dick jokes. Stick with what you do best.
I do read the Thursday styles though
the NYT has never had a good track record with Gaming Journalism, and their feeble attempts arent drawing any of an audience. Their money would be better spent on an image exec.
You know, minus that one line, the article really wasn’t that bad. Especially when you look at the source. It could have been a LOT worse.
It is a pretty good article but I have no idea why they thought that line would add anything to the review except make people upset.
“It was always fun to have a laugh with everyone playing because there was that “bond” that I can’t quite explain.” I understand you there man, feel the same way when I use to play Counter Strike and numerous other games when I was a PC gamer
I agree that the line is unwelcome but let face it that pretty much true! Now we don’t need to “get over it” and it not a good thing but this is where the industry is going even if we sure don’t like it.