It seems like they just weren’t willing to invest the man-hours to make the PC version unique. Part of that is probably that the rates of piracy are so high that it’s not worth it in their mind. They are definitely abandoning the interests of the PC crowd with that decision, but I keep on flip-flopping in my mind as to how nefarious it really is.

In their defense, they are still delivering what should be a great game that will work well on PCs; without potentially wasting resources on a limited audience. On the other hand, they haven’t put in the effort to make it unique to the platform and serve the interests of their users.

I guess I keep on coming back to how poorly they’ve managed their messaging for all of this; and now we’ll see how it all plays out.

I was just listening to Idle Thumbs 50 and I now have a better understanding of PC gamer’s frustration with IW. I will no longer be so quick to dismiss their complaints.

I commonly point to Valve because I think they’re just the most sound example of a company that doesn’t treat its fans as criminals before customers. Steam DRM is the least abrasive PC rights management scheme that I’m aware of and Valve games have the same, tried-and-true server support that gives the breadth of options that most PC gamers want.