Dear Activision/Sledgehammer/whoever wants to take blame,
You're a billion dollar company, and I'm sure you already know that. You're a growing and booming business and I'm sure you know that too. Then why are you not providing your patrons with the expected degree of consumer satisfaction?
Sure, COD:AW was made with the consoles in mind, but do you not remember that it was the PC community that made COD into the franchise it is now? And if you did forget, is it not common business courtesy to provide a great gaming experience for players on ALL platforms? We ARE paying for your games, which do not come cheap by the way, and in return we expect above average gameplay with little to no issues. We would have thought COD:GHOSTS would've taught you guys a lesson.
I can't complain about stuff like the Exo suit and the futuristic guns no one has heard about, because well, we as consumers knew what the game offered before we bought it. But in other areas, the game failed significantly in offering what we DID expect: minimal lag, smooth fps, no stuttering, dedicated servers at the very least. Face it bruh, your hybrid or "perfect mix" of dedicated servers and P2P ain't working. It didn't work for GHOSTS and it is not working for AW. Why can't you set up 4-5 servers playing different game modes in every gaming region? Of course it's going to cost money, but YOU are supposed to spend money if you want to earn some. It's known as investment, and it's what business students learn in Junior High School. You expect to release a half-baked game, a port for PC, and then just sit back bathing in the hard-earned cash of PC players? Have you even played your own game? There is no chance of playing any other game other than TDM on PC, and for people who want to play Classic (who don't like the Exo), there is 100% no chance of ever finding a game. And when the "intelligent" matchmaking mechanism does find a server, the first two rounds of TDM work nicely, but then there is 2-3s lag in the third round. Do you even game, Activision?
And when the PC players did complain about these issues, the least we expected was a patch or at least a promise that stuff was going to get repaired. Instead what we got was a Zombie DLC. Oh great, another game mode to lag and fail in *slow clap*. Instead of pushing out incomplete and unoptimized games for the biggest gaming community, how about you repair your existing game? And take a leaf out of Bethesda/Treyarch's book? And why the hell do you keep switching game devs anyway? How do you expect a company such as Sledgehammer to learn from their mistakes on the previous title if the next game they're going to make will be 3 years later?
The Campaign is exceptionally awesome, but the entire game was ruined due to your stinginess and decision to not have dedicated servers. First-person shooters are 90% multiplayer based, and if you take that away, what do we have left?
So, PLEASE, release patches and not DLCs, fix our game, introduce dedicated servers and stop peeing on the PC community. Do you guys not like 1080p, 60fps? Or is it just about the money that you get from partnerships from Sony and Microsoft? Please remember that torrenting is an option for us; it may not provide us with the Online mode, but in a game like this, multiplayer is negligible anyway.
Thank you. Please don't ban me. #democracy