Recently we’ve spent hours on end, playing COD:UO and laughing our arses off. It’s hard to remember the last time being able to shoot the other guy becoming an impossibility due to eyes filling up with tears of laughter causing all keyboard and mouse functions to cease! Wait, I think it was when we last played UO. LOL! Anyway, what a great time we’ve been having. If you still have your copy, load it up and come join us for some fun. We even have our own World Trade Center Tribute map back up and running. Good time. See you online…

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EA boss John Riccitiello has directed a fresh barrage of taunts at Activision in the aftermath of the Battlefield 3 showing at E3, declaring the conference “the beginning of the war” between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3.

In reality, the war started months ago. Riccitiello and Kotick have been at each others’ throats since late last year. The latest exchange was started by Bobby Kotick’s comments on the Battlefield 3 E3 showing, which also sum up his feelings on the PC as a platform.

“Well so far I’ve only seen Battlefield 3 shown on a PC, so I haven’t seen it on a console which is where the bulk of our business is,” he says. “If it’s just a PC title as it looks like today, that’s a very small audience to participate.”

“The product that we’re about to release, Modern Warfare 3, is the result of an enormous amount of audience research,” he added. “It is what our tens of million of players are saying they’d like to see in their next action experience, so we’re very confident about its launch.”

Read the full article over at PC Gamer

As a PC multiyplayer gamer it seems the era of having the gaming community create mods and maps, putting thousands of hours of their time and sweat into building such things that actually sustain the franchise they love, is coming to an end. In a way it makes me feel like an old man. “Back in my day we used to get mod tools right away and be able to configure our dedicated servers any way we wanted. We could adjust weapon damage, server speed, add black out screens when you died, change timer settings, player skins, etc. AND… we got to do all this uphill through the snow, both ways!!”

However, if instead we actually get value added via the subscription service where by server owners have the option to log in and edit any of a hundred different options on their server through a simple GUI. Where players have the option to log in and edit their individual players with personalized details they can take with them from server to server. You know, all the things the community has been slaving on themselves over the years, then you might actually have something there that the community would gladly subscribe to. Otherwise, it’s just demonstrates profit over the customer experience and becomes nothing more than an epic fail!

Courtesy of Call of Duty News – CoD MapModNews.