Post by iw5000 on Aug 15, 2014 7:46:02 GMT -5
Cause and effect. This goes back pretty far, to the Greeks, maybe further. But we can discuss it in regards to now.
A few weeks ago Infinity Ward got pressure from those above them to do something. Why pressure? The CoD Ghosts player population numbers are dwindling to historic lows. Anyone still playing this game knows this. 21,000 people online last Saturday morning. Good lord, that like "wait a bit to find a game in Domination" type of lows. Activision can't have that. Especially with the last DLC out now. Need some extra buys from that. Bobby Kotik has a vacation planned in October.
So how do the 'smart' people up there at Infinity Ward resolve this terrifying reality?
Duh!
You go back to what brought you to the dance! You drop your pants and whip out your IW cock, more specifically, your KD
Ratio cock and go right to work luring tens of thousands of little boys, adolescent teens and insecure grown up men back to the game with the promise they can be great players again! Yep. IW decided not long ago to allow stat reset to happen. They went right to the lowest baseline crapazz desperation technique, 'boosting the KD', to try to get people to play this game. Go back to all the millions or so left, and let them get another chance to artificially fake/boost/cheat their KD ratios. Do this, because we all know the only measure of skill in this game is where your KD ratio currently resides.
Stat Reset. Translated. "Please come back and play out game!!! PlEEEAASSSE!!! If you do, we'll even allow you all to another chance to fake your KD ratio, take it from a 1.20 and turn yourself back into a great player with a 2.20 KD!!!"
And what was the effect? I've been watching lately. It hasn't brought many (if any) people back to this game. No effect there. But what it has done is get people to reset. That effect was real. While my evidence is only anecdotal, from my end at least 1/2 to 2/3rds of the people I see in lobbies now are under Prestige one. And the other obvious effect? Gameplay has never EVER been worse. And I'll even include my friends on that list. There is nothing going on in CoD right other that 100% raw unadulterated KD whoring. Like almost everyone just playing to do one thing....see how high one can get their KD's to. I'm seeing games (while group playing) where friends are leaving 185-34 winning games, because their 34-12 game is going to drop their KD. Yes, that bad. Solo? Even worse/ I've played three solo sessions the past week. It's far worse there. I can pretty much go into ANY Dom lobby solo, roll up 10 to 15 caps in a game, and it's a stone cold lock that the 2nd through 6th teammates will have three or fewer caps. People/opponents/teammates are openly stating (while avoiding any real meaningful game play) that they won't help because just they just reset, they don't want to "Ruin their new KD"
This is sad. A once great franchise reduce to the level of behaving like some pedophile on the street luring ten year kids to the rape van. Yeah, look closely, you can see the IW higher-ups peeking out the side of those windows.
![](http://www.pointsincase.com/files/u2/free-candy-van.jpg)
A few weeks ago Infinity Ward got pressure from those above them to do something. Why pressure? The CoD Ghosts player population numbers are dwindling to historic lows. Anyone still playing this game knows this. 21,000 people online last Saturday morning. Good lord, that like "wait a bit to find a game in Domination" type of lows. Activision can't have that. Especially with the last DLC out now. Need some extra buys from that. Bobby Kotik has a vacation planned in October.
So how do the 'smart' people up there at Infinity Ward resolve this terrifying reality?
Duh!
You go back to what brought you to the dance! You drop your pants and whip out your IW cock, more specifically, your KD
Ratio cock and go right to work luring tens of thousands of little boys, adolescent teens and insecure grown up men back to the game with the promise they can be great players again! Yep. IW decided not long ago to allow stat reset to happen. They went right to the lowest baseline crapazz desperation technique, 'boosting the KD', to try to get people to play this game. Go back to all the millions or so left, and let them get another chance to artificially fake/boost/cheat their KD ratios. Do this, because we all know the only measure of skill in this game is where your KD ratio currently resides.
Stat Reset. Translated. "Please come back and play out game!!! PlEEEAASSSE!!! If you do, we'll even allow you all to another chance to fake your KD ratio, take it from a 1.20 and turn yourself back into a great player with a 2.20 KD!!!"
And what was the effect? I've been watching lately. It hasn't brought many (if any) people back to this game. No effect there. But what it has done is get people to reset. That effect was real. While my evidence is only anecdotal, from my end at least 1/2 to 2/3rds of the people I see in lobbies now are under Prestige one. And the other obvious effect? Gameplay has never EVER been worse. And I'll even include my friends on that list. There is nothing going on in CoD right other that 100% raw unadulterated KD whoring. Like almost everyone just playing to do one thing....see how high one can get their KD's to. I'm seeing games (while group playing) where friends are leaving 185-34 winning games, because their 34-12 game is going to drop their KD. Yes, that bad. Solo? Even worse/ I've played three solo sessions the past week. It's far worse there. I can pretty much go into ANY Dom lobby solo, roll up 10 to 15 caps in a game, and it's a stone cold lock that the 2nd through 6th teammates will have three or fewer caps. People/opponents/teammates are openly stating (while avoiding any real meaningful game play) that they won't help because just they just reset, they don't want to "Ruin their new KD"
This is sad. A once great franchise reduce to the level of behaving like some pedophile on the street luring ten year kids to the rape van. Yeah, look closely, you can see the IW higher-ups peeking out the side of those windows.
![](http://www.pointsincase.com/files/u2/free-candy-van.jpg)