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Dancing with the Devil: Ars reviews Modern Warfare 2 PC

// November 12th, 2009 // Tech News

It’s a tricky thing to be a PC gamer who wants to play Modern Warfare 2 . We weren’t sure we’d get an advance copy from Activision, so we went to a local game store and put our money down to make sure there would be a copy waiting for us on launch day. (If we complain about preorders in the future, be sure to point out this hypocrisy.) When I went to pick up the game, the store manager let me know that I was the number four pre-order for the PC version of the game. He then told me he had over 400 orders for the Xbox 360 version. It’s hardly a scientific poll, but when one version of the game outsells the other 100 to 1, it’s hard to feel like you’re part of a demographic the publisher is going to listen to. When the time came to pick up the game, the clerk couldn’t find it. It was tucked away in the back, with no display, and I was the first person who came in to get their copy. No PC gamers attended the midnight launch. I was asked, more than once, if I was sure I wanted this version. Even if you bought on Steam, you have to wait until November 13 to play it, which is weird since the game uses Steamworks copy protection and requires a Steam account to play. It seems retail was cut a break on this one.