InfinityWard in Financial Difficulties
Well they must be! What other situation would a company be in to release a product to a mass market that firstly has been mis sold to earn a fast buck and that wasn’t fully tested so that it brings down millions of consumer accounts.
I’m referring to the release by InfinityWard of the long awaiting, much hyped, new map pack for Modern Warfare 2 which cost around £17 or 1200 XP points. After waiting nearly 2 hours for the new map pack to download tonight I headed onto Xbox live to get my fill of the new maps only to find that it was just a Mosh Pit map pack, you couldn’t choose the type of game to play. Not only that the kids Xbox was just crashing and exiting from Xbox Live so they couldn’t even get on.
Usually when you buy something online you can get a refund if you’re not happy with it…. where’s the returns form on Xbox Live to get your money back? Isn’t there some distance selling laws about returning a product that doesn’t meet expectations or isn’t what it says on the tin?
A really big disappointment from what has been the greatest game to come out on the xbox360 for a long time, and what a big disaster for the PR of InfinityWard who have seriously cashed in today from the many millions of people who have stayed faithful to the game and downloaded the new maps.
Simon Barker 1145 days ago
http://www.zath.co.ukMaybe Activision/Infinity Ward needs a bit more cash to pay the lawyers now the IW founders recently had to “clear their desks”.
Although you make a good point about DLC, where is the refund option? At least if you buy a game or expansion pack in a shop, you can try taking it back, sell it on or trade it in to help pay for another game.
POOPeGIFTS_com 1145 days ago
You know you can get tot he new maps playing the other game types right? They just actively call out the new maps for anyone that wants to rotate through just them. And since so many people are playing the new maps, there are hardly any games available in the other modes.
James 1145 days ago
You can’t get the new maps in the other gametypes just yet.
http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo/status/11336702562:
Looks like that will change though. Hopefully will cheer Dave up a bit.
Marchamont 1145 days ago
Of course there are distance selling regulations: http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/business_leaflets/general/oft698.pdf
see para 3.38
Chris Peterson 1145 days ago
People struggling with financial difficulties are targets for scams.
James 1145 days ago
Thanks for the comment Chris. I’m not convinced you actually read the post though…
Chris Gedge 1144 days ago
http://www.further.co.ukTime to buy Bad Company 2 Dave . It makes MW2 look like the original Doom.
Dave 1144 days ago
http://sharkseo.comActually, I almost agree with Chris G – Bad Company 2 does rock (I’m not sure it’s better than MW2 though. It’s not as slick, but it’s much more tactical). Oh, and you can blow up buildings.
Julian Young 1142 days ago
http://www.julian-young.comBC2 is definitely my preference, wasn’t too happy about the lack of dedicated servers for MW2 on the PC so I didn’t buy it, only one of the whole series I didn’t buy. IW are are now blacklisted from my games collection, greedy bar stewards.