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It's all about the sad puppy dog eyes he does ever so well.

A student?

I get the feeling that you don't understand the difference between a cracked version of a game and one in which people have found things like the development console, extra game modes, bugs, hacks, etc etc. If someone is playing a cracked copy, their is a good chance it will not report back to IW servers because that defeats the GOD DAMN FUCKING PURPOSE. That reporting back is what prevents the pirated PC version from playing multi-player OR single-player. There is no point in a cracked pirated version of any game reporting back, it sends up a giant red flag, kinda like emailing Microsoft with your Xbox ID saying you have a modded Xbox, it is really fucking stupid. This lack of reporting back also prevents multi-player through the IW matchmaking system, so even if you are able to play MP, it won't effect the leader-board. Those who are playing legit copies but are modifying multi-player matches via the development console may screw up the leader board, but that's due to IW not making sure unranked matches are part of the game. When you play a match with settings different from the standard, the match is not ranked, it's fucking common sense. So don't go blaming the modding community for that douche. Now, to confuse you a little bit, I do agree with the hypocrite comment, those who joined boycott communities, signed the petitions, and didn't cancel their pre-order or went out and purchased the game anyways...well they are fucking tools. I was honest when I said I wouldn't buy the game till it cost what it is worth, and until then I have Dragon Age or Assassins Creed or any number of other games that are worth the money or effort to pirate (I haven't pirated MW2 because I'm not sure the SP is worth the effort) Now console fag, go away.

Even though the boycott was a massive fail, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/36148144@N05/4098739139/sizes/o/ there are still some people that have no interest in spending $60 for half a game, myself being one of those people.

Something class for once, Sinatra - I've got the World on a String

So, going to be two weeks from now?

So, considering how fast the rest happens, how long till someone figures out how to edit/create custom maps?

I love how all that is ranked, so awesome.

It didn't allow IW/Activision to control content they way the think they should, and by that I mean nothing but DLC that the user has to pay for. NO user maps or mods because they don't see a revenue from it.

http://www.gossipgamers.com/modern-warfare-2-servers-cracked-within-days-after-release/ Looks like it happened a little faster then I figured, but it happened none the less. Not dedicated servers though but a step in the right direction.

Also, you can use unlocker to determine which process/service is perventing you from replacing the file. http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

It could yes, perhaps you have malware running in the background that uses/used the folder. The more information, the less likley people are going to be shooting off random ideas. It's a sex game isn't it, desktop girls maybe?

What is the folder?

Hawaiian shirt, mustache, drives a Ferrari, kinda hard to miss.

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a bigger push for a dedicated server then there is for a crack for the game, and I could understand that.

but it's fair right???? that's what is important to infinity ward/activision, yes sir, being fair for all them casual PC gamers. I'm still not sure if I am going to get the game till there is a drop in price, it's not worth $60 at the moment.

Haven't had this issue since Live Messenger was still being called MSN Messenger and to fix it I uninstalled, delete the install folder(C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger), reboot, and downloaded the installer from the messenger website.

What, hell no, don't be following that, far to much work. Right click on "My Computer" and pick "Manage". That will bring up Computer Management and you will select Disk Management from the left where you will right click on your optical drive and pick "Change Drive Letter and Path". Click change, pick the drive letter you want, and finish it off by clicking Ok a few time. I don't think you have to reboot, but it helps if you do.

and with decent sized hard drive on most consoles models now, mods and user maps would show the console world what they've been missing.

It also requires a level of interaction with the game and console that console gamers aren't use to or interested in. I've never heard of dedicated server where someone hasn't sat down at some point and edited config files and I don't see many console gamers interested in that. And if you are suggesting running the dedicated server on a PC for the console, well I don't have a decent retort for that since I can see a number of bonuses to that.

It's more then a little flimsy, it's straight up ridiculous and smells of bullshit(piracy check?). The one thing that leaves me shacking my head is how including dedicated servers in the matchmaking process would improve things for everyone but instead they figure the console model is better. They could keep their piracy check if they just forced the dedicated server to report to the matchmaking server, or force players to connect through the matchmaking server(just initial connection) and the PC community could keep their custom maps, mods, and heavily tweaked game play settings.

Now, I am assuming that you are using Windows, the majority of these forums seem too, so I can't imagine it being a bad assumption. Regardless, the principle still applies, try a second browser, there is NO guarantee that it's going to work or not work in the second browser. As it turns out, Firefox and IE are two separate browsers and oddly enough run differently using independent plug-ins for stuff like flash.

Does it work in IE? and adblock or noscript...or any of these blocking addons, they wouldn't happen to be blocking things would they?

Got to wonder how many of the people whining about the lack of sidebar now were whining about the sidebar back when it was introduced.

If it is black during POST, other then trying the second vid output on the card (if it has one) all you can do is find yourself another card and see if you get a different result.