News > Infinity Ward Politely Insults Windows Live Anywhere
June 15, 2007
Grant Collier and the team over at Infinity Ward are hard at work on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. At one point along the way they were contacted by Microsoft, who attempted to spur the inclusion of LIVE Anywhere support in the multi-platform title. Infinity Ward "actively rejected" this offer. Grant Collier tells the story:
"Our rep left us a message saying 'hey, want to talk about this, Live Anywhere, it's big, it's cool', and I thought, well yeah, if you're playing online poker, but who wants to be playing an RTS on a console and have some guy on a PC clicking and dragging all his troops, attacking your base while you're sitting there with your thumb sticks. So I think for FPSs and RTSs, no way, but for, y'know, card games or Tetris or something like that. There are games that I think it's cool for, but there are other games where I don't think there's any point. So they just didn't respond."
Zing! "Take your LIVE Anywhere and your playing cards and shove 'em," is what he meant to say.
Seriously, though, he makes a very valid point. If gamers are to compete across the PC-console barrier, it simply won't be any fun for the console players. PCs allow for precision control, and thus precision DOMINANCE, that will take console players right out of the game.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
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