I want you to pay attention to something happening on the IWNation forums (Infinity Ward) just today.

A massive Call of Duty 2 servers strike is on the way. The main reason: lack of communication of AV/IW with the modding and mapping community.
Ignoring their customer base for at least a year (this thing was going on for CoD:United Offensive as well) has finally led to this.

Many prominent members of the CoD community (admins, mappers, modders) have already spoken out their support for a server strike. Notice: even IWNation forum admins agree on the lack these issues.

We don't know if this strike will get anything done, but we're seriously fed up with Activision and their "as much profit for as little effort"-oriented policies.


More info:
http://www.iwnation.com/Forums/index.php?showtopic=17450&hl=

and MANY other topics on the Infinity Ward forums.


We surely hope you can make a news item out of this. Other gaming sites are posting this as we speak.


The last slap in the face was the interview with Infinity Ward's Grant Collier, in which he states that there was no active modding community for call of duty and no support whatsoever. What a disgrace, really.

See you on the infinity ward forum (see link).

shame the modsonline community is so little outspoken;......


but anyway:


**CCA - CoD COMMUNITY ACTION PRESS RELEASE**

Today for the first time in the history of gaming the Call of Duty/UO/Call of Duty2 online community are pulling forces together to make a stand against the developers of the games Infinity Ward and Activision by shutting down all their servers that host these games for a 24hr period to begin on the 17th December. This decision has not been taken lightly by server admins but the time has come to bite the bullet and stand up for what we believe in.
This will be worldwide with support from clans from Australia, America, Germany, Netherlands, France, UK, Sweden amongst other countries.

This is in an attempt to get Infinity Ward and Activision to support their community and offer some form of support for the products they are releasing for online gameplay.

No Anticheat has to be one of the biggest issues that have enraged the disillusioned community.
No statements have been made from Infinity Ward/Activision as to whether they are going to implement this.
This is something that the CoD community felt very strongly about when CoD was released in 2003.
They had asked for this to be implemented for CoD2 months ago but like the rest of the questions have been completely ignored.
Petitions are in place to get some form of Anticheat as well.
The game is being constantly abused by cheats and the community are sick to the back teeth with the way they are being treated and the lack of interest from the developer and publisher.

Too many questions have been ignored for far too long now and the CoD community believe that after raking in millions of dollars Infinity Ward/Activision have let them down.
So this is the action we are proposing to get the attention of Infinity Ward/Activision to ask for Public Relations support from their team and answer many questions blighting the online game.


If no statement arrives from either Activision or Infinty Ward on or before midnight 16th December 2005 Action Day will be 17th December 2005 at 6pm your local time.

You may either shutdown or lockdown your server with a secure password.

Please Change your server name to "We support CCA"

Thank you all again for supporting this Action and your Community.

We will keep you informed of any further actions if deemed necessary.


A very big thankyou to all the clans worldwide that will be partaking in the server blackout on 17th December.

Our only wish throughout all of this has been to bring our community together in order to force a response from both Activision and Infinity Ward with regards to supporting the Game Series we all love playing.

signed by
COD Community Action
on behalf of all the players, modders, mappers, Clans and League Admins of The Call of Duty Series.

one thing, this doesnt affect IW or Activision at. Doesnt this only affect us the gamers? if im wrong, please explain how this will impact IW or Act. because i dont see it.

you guys just need to chill...Yelling at IW wont make them suddenly become responsible. I think that a lot of the support for this strike is coming from small minded people reading one side of the story and getting excited over phrases like "band together", "overcome", "server blackout", "Action Day", "lockdown", and "teach IW a lesson."


Its a game guys. If we are all so hyped up about IW not telling us when a patch is going to be released, etc., then we OURSELVES need to rethink our priorities. Call of Duty is a GAME. Its not a way of life or a source of income. Just play it. If something annoys you about the game, then make sure that the annoyance is made known. Do NOT, however, form a Union of servers and threaten to lock down CoD if the developers don't immedietaly respond to your complaints within a month. That's just ridiculous.

take a look at this thread