Modern Warfare 2 - Free

bomberboysk said:
Steam does free weekends for games pretty often.
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No, I know. Though for their games, isn't the full game free for that period of time? There's no trial or anything? I'm more talking about Infinty Ward. If they want to actually try and compete with BC2, they should do a lot more than a DLC with a few new maps and some old ones, and a free weekend trial of the game.
 
Gooberman said:
Yup once i'm done and we can play online for the freesness it'll be fun i have it for the 360 but i want to try it for the PC :)
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Same here, I'm pretty good at it on 360 but I'm going to be terrible at it on PC. Now that its free maybe we can get up a big CF game up sometime over the weekend.
 
Just making sure that I'm reading this right: So the download is free for the weekend, but when the weekend is over, it expires and you can't play it unless you pay for it, right?
 
ScottALot said:
Just making sure that I'm reading this right: So the download is free for the weekend, but when the weekend is over, it expires and you can't play it unless you pay for it, right?
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you download it, for the weekened you can play online. After that time it won't work on or offline unless you purchase the game

think of it as a taster. If you like what you get you can pay for it to get more :)
 
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I skipped MW2 due to the server complaints, but I was planning on trying it at some point.

Several friends keep telling me that BC2 is a better game. I'll give the freebee a shot.

It took about 20 tries to make it connect to the preload.
 
When I try to launch the game I get a "Could not load localization.txt. Please make sure Modern Warfare 2 is run from the correct folder" I goggled it and doesn't seem like there is a fix for it, not that I have found yet anyways.

Things like this is why I never liked playing PC games, there is always a problem:mad:
 
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i was playing this game for the 360 but my friend took it back yesterday but now i can try it on pc now fun fun downloading it right now

my gamertage is XxJareeBxX if you want to add me. i will have live again once the halo reach beta comes out
 
Fatback said:
When I try to launch the game I get a "Could not load localization.txt. Please make sure Modern Warfare 2 is run from the correct folder" I goggled it and doesn't seem like there is a fix for it, not that I have found yet anyways.

Things like this is why I never liked playing PC games, there is always a problem:mad:
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Just a thought, maybe because it's a free weekend and it is not the weekend yet. Something like that happened for another free weekend a while back.
 
awildgoose said:
Just a thought, maybe because it's a free weekend and it is not the weekend yet. Something like that happened for another free weekend a while back.
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No steam says the game will be playable at 4:00PM pacific time on Thursday. It is now 5:13PM pacific time on Thursday. Before 4:00 it would even let me click launch. As soon as it hit 4:01 launch popped up and I tried to start the game and I get the error. A ton of people has had the same problem ever sense a steam update or something like that. I will keep trying to find a fix for the rest of the night after that I will give up.
 
Fatback said:
When I try to launch the game I get a "Could not load localization.txt. Please make sure Modern Warfare 2 is run from the correct folder" I goggled it and doesn't seem like there is a fix for it, not that I have found yet anyways.

Things like this is why I never liked playing PC games, there is always a problem:mad:
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I'm getting the same error. :(
 
I got this off of the steam forums....

Right, I deleted a couple of small files from C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps

They were call of duty modern warfare 2 content.ncf and call of duty modern warfare 2 mp binaries.ncf

Both were small (around 11kb for one and 500kb ish for the other) so I figured even if it had to redownload them it wouldn't matter.




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After you delete those two files (close steam first). Reopen steam then attempt to launch the game. That should force steam to download the files you need to play. Apparently the initial download doesn't have everything or some crap like that.

I'm now downloading the rest and I'll post if it works. They were saying that it only dl'd 4gigs when the multiplayer portion is really 12 gigs. So it's an 8 gig download I guess.
 
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