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Robert Bowling: ‘IWNet and invites on PSN are good to go now’

Ahmad Dajani — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:39:16 +0000

Now, everybody knows that Modern Warfare 2 players are facing some difficulties while playing online on PC and PSN. Today, Robert Bowling the Creative Strategist of Infinity Wards has updated his official tweeter account by saying that the ‘tweaks just went into affect’:

‘Some late night #MW2 tweaks just went into affect. IWNet matchmaking on PC just got improvements & invites on PSN are good to go now. Gnight’

We have yet to see if everything is fine, but it’s good to hear some positive news. Are you still having problems while playing Modern Warfare 2 online? Let us know.

Public multiplayer beta for Modern Warefare 2, why not?

Ahmad Dajani — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:02:44 +0000

As you know by now, Robert Bowling community manager of Infinity Ward confirmed that gamers around the world will not get their hands on the much anticipated game Modern Warefare 2 before 10, November 2009, which is the official release date for the game. But why not since Infinity Ward’s 2007 hit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare had a multiplayer beta on Microsoft’s Xbox Live prior to release.

I will explain why I’m concerned about this; first of all, most of the successful multiplayer games such as Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, and Killzone 2 has had benefited from the public beta that took place before those games set to be released. If Infinity Ward do a public beta, they can ensure the game to be as close as to glitches free and if they achieved this, Modern Warefare 2 gamers will be satisfied from the game since day one.

Do you remember the huge number of glitches Gears of War 2 had when it was released last year? Do you remember how many title updates the game got to fix its own glitches? That’s because the game hadn’t been tested enough before it was set to be released.

Even the highly polished game Uncharted 2 is having a public beta right now. I know that Infinity Ward is doing a closed beta for the press and they are testing the game by professional testers in the office, but in my opinion it isn’t enough to guarantee the game to be as perfect as fans of the franchise hopes for.

Modern Warefare 2 is going to be a very excellent game, I can guarantee this, but I’m very concerned about the multiplayer portion of the game, maybe I could be wrong, but I need the game to deliver an excellent experience from day one. So what do you think? Should the game have a public beta or it’s in good hands?

MW2 will have a lot of community suggested perks

Bawaleez — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:27:14 +0000

According to Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward’s Director of Communications/Community Manager, Infinity word is Aiming to release a new Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer video by next week, Robert said that the focus will be on showing a lot new Perks suggested by the Community.

Infinity Ward already stated that Multiplayer has always been and will always remain a major focus for the team and that they would never ship a product that doesn’t live up to their high standards and after it was confirmed at Gamescom that Infinity Ward wouldn’t be opening testing of Modern Warfare 2′s multiplayer up to the public any new video can be eagerly awaited.