MW2 Banned in Russia and Activision consider subscriptions

[VonBlade]

It's no surprise to find Modern Warfare 2 has been banned in Russia until the "Airport" mission is eliminated from the game. Activision are also thinking strongly about charging for online services in their games.

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[Rastalovich]

Kinda ironic that they don't mind the decades of C'n'C and the maybe hundreds of other games that have depicted Russian areas.

.. not concerned when it's Germans, Arab nations, African nations, communities.

And there are a whole load of car-games out there where u can run over as many civilians as u like.

Which was the game where u had a Whitehouse scene ?

 

[FarFarAway]

I'd love a game dev to make the USA (or UK, whatever), out to be the bad guys. Kind of Team America but serious. Can you imagine the throwback.

Sure Russia are annoyed at this, it really doesn't depict Russians in a good light, if it was the UK/US/France etc then there would be annoyed people.

 

[Ham]

I was ready to rant about keeping other games out of Blizz battle.net, but upon going to the linked source there's nothing about it (that the search could find under Activision anyway).

Can somone link me to the full article?

 

[Pyr0]

Russian airport massacre prompts Modern Warfare 2 ban

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-en...airport-massacre-prompts-modern-warfare-2-ban

Activision pursuing 'online monetization models' for Call of Duty franchise

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/15/activision-pursuing-online-monetization-models-for-call-of-dut/

Call of Duty to get paid-for online services

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=227204

Activision Hints at Call of Duty Online Plans

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/104/1044965p1.html

 

[nathan]

Activision have come out and said this isnt true, only the PC version has been released there and that doesnt contain the airport scene.

http://news.google.co.uk/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&ncl=dOI_tNdA3gPyF8Mvyies_V1_rsq1M&topic=t

 

[mrapoc]

You think ill pay to play online?

GTFO

 

[VonBlade]

I was ready to rant about keeping other games out of Blizz battle.net, but upon going to the linked source there's nothing about it (that the search could find under Activision anyway).

Can somone link me to the full article?

Apologies HAM. I did link within the body of the text but as I'd used multiple sources and combined into a single article I couldn't use them all as the main source.

Sorry for any confusion caused.

 

[sammytomjohn]

You think ill pay to play online?

GTFO

init already paid for the game!