User blog comment:Austin Power Man/Why DICE is a rip-off./@comment-1990578-20100812235357

MW1 is so popular because it was the first console game that usurped Halo 3 from the top of the list since it finally wen't to a modern setting, which was what everyone wanted at the time. MW2 has kept that going strong because people loved MW1 and told everyone and their dog about it, so everyone got hyped for MW2 and thus it dominated in sales. People play it because its so damed popular and well known. I personally hate both games (played them, but didn't like it very much), as many people here already know, because both are very broken and unbalanced - more so in MW2 than 1.

Little did everyone know, however, that DICE brought in the modern shooter with Battlefield 2 years before (June '05) but on the PC only, until Battlefield 2: Modern Combat came out on the original Xbox in October that year and then was updated and re-released for the 360 in '06. The lack of PC gamers (to my knowledge anyways) and how the console version was a not-so-good port with different stuff made it not as successful as MW1 and 2 are now. Plus, DICE isn't as well known as Infinity Ward and Treyarch, the makers of CoD.

The reason we have these mode packs is because its a gimmick by EA, not DICE. EA owns DICE, and thus sets what they can and cannot do - which is why there are so many Mode Packs and no new maps. But look at BC1. It was and still is popular, but I don't remember many people complaining about a lack of maps as there were 12 in it (4 of those 12 were from DLC that was free, and they were new maps). We're getting our first new maps for BC2 this winter with the Vietnam expansion, but until then, its Mode Packs (supposedly number 6 is coming soon according to the blog).