No Digital Home for my Guns

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a thoroughly enjoyable first person shooter. Its single player missions are awesome, just like before. You really feel like you are playing in a movie. It's that good.

The multiplayer matches are fun, but the redesign has taken away a crucial sense of home, of belonging. Gone are individual servers hosting multiplayer games. That means you can't log into your favorite servers, and waiting for the number of players to build up before launching into a game. Instead, the game automatically finds other servers and combines players from other waiting servers.

Now, I understand why they do this. It provides fast pairing to get games going. However, you lose a lot of customization, and with it, a sense of a particular digital home that I go back to again and again. I have met casual acquaintances this way, and it has been quite enjoyable playing against polite people that enforces the ban against egregious behavior.

Well, here's a shout out to "A Canadian Crew", whose servers I have spent a large quantity of time in. Thanks for the fun times with the Call of Duty 4. See you around, somewhere, on Call of Duty (6).




P.S. Its irritating how many otherwise innocuous people would use foul language and shout false bravado while online. Most would never say those things to a person's face, simply because they can get punched. In the online world, they hide their identity and the baser elements show themselves.