Stop playing Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer!
Now that we got your attention: We don’t want anyone to stop playing MWF2 Multiplayer. But Infinity Ward and Activision sure seem to.
This screen is probably very familiar to those of you that have played the MWF2 Multiplayer on your PC:
And in-game freezes might also be common to you.
Just like the many failures to find a host.
That the abandonment of dedicated servers and the adoption of the so-called ‘EWNet’ has caused a lot of problems, isn’t news. We’re ignoring for a second the fact that this match-making system annoys many clans and lacks modding servers. There have been plenty of complaints about that. The failed connections, host problems, massive lag and the many more errors, freezes and crashes are what’s bothering us today.
These MANY problems have been plagueing the multiplayer for many, many months. And instead of solving them, or offering compensation, Activision (due to ‘circumstances, we’ll leave poor Infinity Ward – or probably Infinity Trio by now – out of this) lets it go on. Although they were very dedicated to solving some of the issues early-on back in 2009, they now seem to have abandoned it completely.
Having to switch hosts once every game session is acceptable. Restarting the game once because the connection failed, is do-able as well. But being shot in the face by an opponent because the game froze and continues after the opponent has gotten a good, 2 minute look at you aiming your gun at him, is just not cool. In other cases, characters are unable to move (except for pointlessly jumping up and down). At times, when multiple players experience this problem, you can see three characters hilariously jumping up and down for the duration of the game.
Playing for 3 hours and only being able to play 3 rounds because of all the connection problems, host switches and what-nots, is just not acceptable. Even more-so if this keeps recurring, week after week.
We know they had their reasons for abandoning the dedicated servers and for using the EWNet instead. We understand that piracy is something that bugs the games industry and that they want (and need) to take measures against it. But fighting pirates by sacrificing the game’s experience for those that DO pay for the game, can’t be the solution.
I don’t want to stop playing the MWF2 multiplayer. But when a friend asked me whether he should play MWF2 multiplayer, of the Battlefield multiplayer, I had no choice but to recommend the Battlefield multiplayer. Unless he was looking for a point-and-click game where you have to press ‘find game’ over and over again to make the winning ‘Unable to connect’ message appear again and again.
So come on guys, give us paying gamers a break. I love the MWF2 multiplayer. It’s awesome. But the game is just becoming annoyingly unplayable. Please, fix the thing, or compensate us. Free DLC would be acceptable 
* This by no means says that we don’t appreciate the game, that it’s not a great game and that this didn’t work hard. We all know they did a great job, worked hard and delivered. But just like when your laptop turns out to be broken upon delivery, the manufacturer is obliged to help you out. We don’t want to bitch (maybe just a little ): we just want to play the multiplayer *
Any more problems with the multiplayer, or better yet: solutions? Feel free to comment!
Yeah, I got the same problems, for several weeks now
Sometimes restarting your pc can help, but most of the time you’re just lucky or you’re not!
i broght this game to see it close and fair
iw is dead and thats what i want
many many good game coming now every one will forget this game
lol nice one free dlc
iw:we are sorry pc gamers so we accept us this gift the 2 DLCs for free
Yeah.. And the LAG in PS3 version is HORRIBLE.. Today My team got owned by noobs coz of a REAL BAD connection..
I am at Prestige 7, another guy at Prestige 10 and all the other guys in my team are really good players..
But coz of the DAMN LAG we lost.. Damn U IW.. U just milk gamers money & do nothing for them..
We CONSOLE gamers also want DEDICATED SERVERS for COD 7 else We will be sticking with BFBC2 & will be moving to “KZ3″ when it is launched..
Yeah I hate that, at times the lag is so bad that one second your opponent is in front of you and he disappears into thin air and ends up miles away :’)
Thank god they’re considering dedicated servers for the new CoD..
My dick > Modern Campfare 2
if you’re on pc, play bfbc2
Lags are half of the problems – I just hate to be camped from behind the maps. Too many glitches killed this game for me. bfbc2 is much better in any way.
i sold mw2 a month after i bought it, when the javelin glitch was just recently uncovered. glad i dodged the bullet there. but if any you retards think that EA is better than activision, no way. Infinity Ward is a great company, like DICE (who is with EA) but you have the publishers who interfere so much with the developers that you get a garbled red tape and assfuckery. bad company 2 is also plagued with lag, and for the dissenters of that FACT, you’re a lucky one. bad company 2 had a lot of glitches (and still does) upon release, but most people dismissed that fact in spite of modern warfare 2.
If you’re on pc or console, play BFBC2*
Fixed.
I find it quite laughable all the whining about “lag” going on here. Simpletons who don’t understand even the most basic networking principles making wild claims about how to fix the “lag” issues.
Bandwidth and Latency (“lag” as you idiots call it) are what matter to online gaming. There will always be latency. Always. And the programmers for online games must deal with that by using “Collision Prediction” algorithms to determine hits. The only thing worse than high latency is varying latency. Latency that remains at, say, 120 ms and only varies +/- 10% will result in a decent game thanks to the collision prediction routines that deal with latency. But if your latency is changing constantly, especially over short periods of time, then this will be a real problem.
Amazing the number of morons that think that rebooting their console/PC will fix their latency. Those who understand networking at the highest levels, realize how futile such endeavors are. More bandwidth does not improve your latency, unless you were running at full capacity before your upgrade. Then I have to laugh even more at those who think Quality of Service settings in the DSL/Cable modems will improve their latency. There is no QoS on the Internet. Period. As soon as your packets leave your DSL/Cable modem, they are at the mercy of the ISP (Internet) routers who do not employ QoS.
But hey, keep on rebooting your consoles, PC’s and fiddling with your modem settings. It keeps your simple minds occupied with the glowing lights and pretty screens, which keeps your tard asses off the online multiplayer.
There is a saying. “You don’t know, what you don’t know”. Enjoy this link, hopefully his website will educate you idiots:
http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/what-every-programmer-needs-to-know-about-game-networking/
Is this only happening on PC?
I agree, much better to switch to BFBC2. At least, that’s what I would have said before all the lag issues started. Such an amazing multiplayer game revolved around team work but I can’t play it because of the lag. Disappointing. I hate EA and DICE so much after this.
i stopped playing that tarshy game when battle field came out. come to think of it the only time i really ever played mw2 was when it first came out cause it was something new.
MW2 is a decent shooter at best
Why does every one keep on blaming iw? Does every one forget about activision they were the ones to milk this game. besides we all have cod4 as part of our game libary so lets go play that again, if you dont have cod4 go buy it as you will descover what fun is when u play online
Gamers need dedicated servers..
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Nope, consoles have problems too from what I’ve heard (see comment by HL on this page about the PS3)
@ bert
EA and dice is well better then IW and Activision
At least EA and Dice actualy care about the realism in games while keeping a deacent amount of graphics to go with it at the same time, IW ande activision just care about camoing noobs, glitches and hackers on there online MP games.
Dude this is not an issue with Infinity Ward’s or Activision’s delivery of the game. If people were not dumb and knew a little bit about Networking 101. You would understand that it is infact some peoples home connections. I don’t think anyone understands what It really takes to put 12-16 people in a game lobby really. Make sure your NAT type is open. Me and my friends play on 360 personally. We were having this same issue. My buddy Mick was “Moderate”, and my buddy Adam was “Strict”. I made time to go to their homes and make their NAT types open. We have not had these issues since that change.
My NAT type is already open, is one of the first things I did, and I have player the game at three different locations (three different network connections) and still had the same problems. Plus the problems originate from the fact that the connection comes from THEIR servers and they can’t handle the load. So if a player has a good connection and all the correct settings that still means the connection can be bad from their end.
I do have this problem but only occasionally but I just keep on playing. I’ve probably had the worst host migration fail ever, I was up in wasteland with my chopper and in only about 10 secs in it I got a nuke, got 3 more kills in the chopper and then a Host migration starts but it just freezes without me getting a chance to call in my nuke 0.0 that’s what I felt like cause I’d only nuked once back then. But since that moment I only got motivated to do more nukes and now I get a nuke daily
Learn how to edit or blog son! Don’t take this the wrong way, but constructive criticism helps people from making the same mistakes twice. But you do make a valid point.
Constructive criticism also involves a somewhat more detailed criticism
if the criticism doesn’t make clear exactly what could be improved, it’s not really constructive. If it is constructive we’re happy to hear it!
I have ps3 version worked fine until I got to around level 52 then all of a sudden I got the connecting to server problem, I have tried to log in everyday for the last 2 months with no luck. Have spoke to service provider, router provider, activision all with no luck.
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ll my friends are still online and playing and I can play any other game in my collection with zero problems, including other online shooters INCLUDING mag with a hell of a lot more players than mwf2 so that self righteous prick called “Network Genius” can take his small c0ck and shove it in a wall socket. (Sorry admin i’m not normally rude but he annoyed me, even though he has a point… a small one
Anyway good luck everyone with the problem my copy of mw2 is on ebay for £20 if you wanna buy it
that hapens to me on the ps3 as well, and i just get tired of that, i just gived the game on tradeinn on game stop , and buy the rdr2,