Activision Wants ModernWarfare3.com

[matt]

Looks like something has happened, if you go there now, it goes to an IIS7 default page, so they've taken down the redirect, and whatever site they used to have up there. Probably got a lawyer's letter or something.

The rivalry between the playerbases are still understandable, but the fact that the CEOs of both companies are just as bad has me really ticked off.

It's not actually EA that's got this domain, and trying to sabotage Activision, it's just some dude. According to the whois records, his name is Anthony Abraham. So it's not the two companies/CEO's battling it out, it's just some random guy trying to make a statement, and Activision is I think understandably upset about it

[Graal]

It's not actually EA that's got this domain, and trying to sabotage Activision, it's just some dude. According to the whois records, his name is Anthony Abraham. So it's not the two companies/CEO's battling it out, it's just some random guy trying to make a statement, and Activision is I think understandably upset about it

Yeah, but Kotick and whats-his-face has been fighting and bitching it out like two alley-cats the last few months.

[TheAvenged87]

Yeah, but Kotick and whats-his-face has been fighting and bitching it out like two alley-cats the last few months.

With each of those two companies with incoming major releases which compete against each other, I think that there will be more blows being thrown in the coming months.

But this is in no way bad for us. I believe that this rivalry will continue for a few years and they will try to persuade people into buying their games. But to do that, the quality of the games will have to improve (not at all implying that these games are bad in any way). So in the end, we are entertained by a nice trash talk session while the games keep improving. We win.

[Graal]

The problem is, the only improvements I see to MW3 is fickle stuff like 'maybe we'll do dedicated servers' etc. Nothing that actually adds to the gameplay. For MW3 to actually improve, it would have to get a totally new engine.

[wolvie]

Classic stuff. I do find the ramblings between each company highly amusing. In a way, they are actually advertising for each others game at the same time.

[psychogenik]

One must why one would go through the trouble of registering the domain just to promote Battefield about 3 years later. Not exactly going to 'win people over'

Was this guy bored or wasted?

[souluser7]

I think that Activision should have seen this coming (someone else claiming the site) but they were just too laid back to care about it. Now that someone's decided to make waves by creating the site it's finally caught the developer's attention :/

[psychogenik]

I think that Activision should have seen this coming (someone else claiming the site) but they were just too laid back to care about it. Now that someone's decided to make waves by creating the site it's finally caught the developer's attention :/

You could be right. I mean, there is a modernwarfare2.com website. They should have noticed that modernwarfare3.com is already a registered domain some time ago.