A user at Reddit posted an error message received while trying to connect to IWnet on Modern Warefare 2 for the PC. Only problem is that it told him to reconnect to Xbox Live, adding even more evidence to the claim that the PC version is merely a console port (with mouse support and graphics settings). Oh Infinity Ward...
Might as well drop the keyboard and mouse and plug in the 360 controller.
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Oh snap!
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ok this just killed me……how could you infinity ward, i don’t believe this…….actually i do
“Bigmacbook sighs with much disappointment”
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Evan Volm Reply:
November 14th, 2009 at 8:53 PM
This isn’t all that uncommon in ports. Sometimes they’ll say ‘press start’ or ‘press A to continue’. While MW2 wasn’t a direct console port, there are a number of lines of code that were simply copied over to the PC version, this being one of them. It’s just lazy coding.
A very similar thing happened with Need for Speed: Shift. The Xbox 360 version tried connecting to the PSN at launch.
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This is fake. I had the normal error, and it doesn’t say that. I cannot remember it now but it definitely doesn’t say that.
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Tyler Treat Reply:
November 14th, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Thanks for the heads up. It’s definitely possible that this is Photoshopped. However, code for splitscreen and system link was found in the PC source code.
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