No dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2.

A month before release, I-Ward drops the biggest bombshell possible on a third of their fanbase, except it sucks; no dedicated servers for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. Which means multiplayer will function off of listen servers like console multiplayer does. (Hint: This is the root of many problems that happens with multiplayer on consoles.)

Just to make it even better, the dev-team's community manager has said a few things about it, except he sounds like he has no idea how PC gaming works and what he thinks "dedicated servers" means is actually "Our servers run the matchmaking system but the actual game is still a listen server."

I feel like someone just stole my kitten and cut off one of his legs to mail me as proof that I need to pay the ransom.

That sounds like something of an overreaction.

Being angry that a standard feature of not just the genre, but the gametype of an extremely highly-anticipated game isn't going to be present and will instead have a technologically-inferior replacement that will cause gameplay degradation is over-reacting?

The comparison to a kitten being kidnapped and mutilated is. But I never use the multiplayer, so maybe it'd affect others more.

Yes, I'm sure I'm the only person in the world who's ever expressed displeasure with a tasteless imagery of a magnitude that is clearly hyperbole.

What the fuck? That's so dumb, it's like Infinity Ward just turned into Treyarch.

Some things only I-Ward can do. For everything else, there's Treyarch.