Thats right! Tooooo many BRINK players are hating on COD!

How are you suppossed to grow BRINK'S community if you keep dissing COD?? They make up a large majority of FPS players, and at the end of the day BRINK is a FPS right??

Lets encourage players to cross over to BRINK, and let the game develop into its potential with a larger community.

There is a ton of stuff that is similar to COD or what a COD player would expect in a FPS, all except frag stats... for now.

I don't think the Brink players hate COD. But there is a lot of anomosity towards people who want to make Brink more like COD.
COD is not a bad game per se but why should Brink include some of the COD features that go against the concept of Brink?

I agree it'd be nice to have some people crossing over but there are some people who would honestly be happier playing COD than Brink simply because they don't get the team nature integral with the game.

People who obsess over K/D are not going to get Brink until they understand that, in Brink, K/D is irrelevent and we don't need a special TDM or FFA mode. I think a lot of the hate is aimed towards that sort of thing and not really the COD players themselves or the game itself.

Brink is unique and has a certain style that shouldn't be diluted (IMO) by trying too hard to incorporate other mainstream ideas if they don't fit.

I agree.

But may I add that I think alot of people don't nessecarily hate CoD. They more hate the 'community' and mentality based around it.

I don't think the majority of them understand the concepts behind Brink (which is fair enough) so they want features more like a IP they're familiar with.

Sound reasonable?

must agree with zenstar on this one,

i myself have been drawn from RPGs into shooters since MOH:AA and ive played all COD games till the disk vaporized really,
dont hate either games, they both bring something quite good to the table, both in their own unique ways.

i lol at the fact people compare every shooter to COD nowadays, reminds me how it used to be CS and tis WoW for (mmo)RPGs,
its just bull in my opinion, every game has its own thing going on, both good and bad.

like bout 95% of the people i was blown away by the promises and trailers,
shame SD cut alot of stuff out, but hey thats what DLC is for right?
i think BRINK is unique in its own way, reminds me of Wolfenstein ET alot but its quite unlike any shooter ive played the last few years.

I'D SAY GO SD KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WHINE BUT ENJOY A THEMSELVES.
TIS WHAT GAMES ARE FOR?

I love Brink. I also Love COD, but for much different reasons. However, I'm just sick of COD, that's all. Tired of one or two guys owning everyone in every match. Tired of 2-3 guys getting kill streak after kill streak....chopper gunners, spawn campers, dogs, napalm strikes....it gets to a point where only 2-3 guys are having fun and everyone else is on the receiving end. In COD, if you have 1 guy that is a killing machine, your team can dominate because of his killstreak rewards. In Brink, it is about having 8 guys working together that makes it fun for everyone on the team. In Brink, I don't have to be great at getting kills in order to have fun. I can help the team win through support actions...and killing is just part of the fun.

Again, not hating on COD...my issues with it lately are probably due to the fact that my skill level isn't up to par with guys who live, eat & breath COD 24/7. I think it is a great franchise that has really brought a lot to the FPS genre and has been one of the most influential franchises over the last 6-7 years.
Much respect to COD...but I think my time with the franchise has run its course. I'm enjoying BRINK much more (so long as there isn't lag).

Also Tiger, aren't you sort of contradicting yourself by coming onto the BRINK forums and relentlessly baggin' it out?

You don't see any Brink fanatics waltzing on over to the CoD forums to complain about CoD?

I understand your frustrations with the game and I get the fact that is hasn't lived up to your expectations, but really, what is this achieving?

The answer is nothing by the way. Just saying it would be nice if you laid of the abuse, especially considering multiple times you've gotten personal?

Please just either tone it down or just leave. Do everyone a favour and give it up.

I'm not saying you don't have the right to voice your opinion but enough is enough.

Rambo out.

I personally think that CoD has no place in brink. They have different target audiences(demographics), different play styles, different paces, different playerbase. The only thing they have in common is the fact they both have guns.

Its like trying to compare battlefield 3 with modern warefare 3. It just can't be done.

(btw... BF3 ftw.)

Don't think I could have worded it better myself.... Take this :spotted owl:

P.S. I ran out of cookies, so take the owl.

Rather, an intense dislike, much like an allergic reaction, of people who come onto the forums solely to complain about how the game is not like CoD, and suggest - with a false sense of entitlement and a holier-than-thou attitude, and bad spelling often as not - it should be made more like CoD.

To which, a person on the interwebs being naturally sarcastic, one is moved to ask, "Why don't you go back to CoD?"

Flamewars be flamewars, but seems perfectly predictable behaviour. Where I live, if you go to a restaurant and do nothing but complain about the food, the Ma?tre will ask you to leave.

It isn't COD players we hate, it is the close-mindedness of gamers who can't comprehend why people would want something different from a shooter. They come to the forums asking for TDM and FFA, it is an enigma to them why we would possibly want something different... and chances are they are the COD types. It isn't all COD players of course, just the incredibly silly ones.

I think that the first port-of-call for attracting new FPS gamers to Brink would be to attract those who have played Battlefield: Bad Company 2, rather than those who have played Call of Duty.

Actually I play alot CoD and MW, but I also hate the Community of these Games. I only play with my Friends, mostly from Real Life, and the Setup of my Console is that I only hear my Friends talking even if I am not in a Partychat. 95% of the Random People you meet in MW or CoD are plain F.u.cking stupid, annoying and completely R.e.tarded. And I don't want those people in Brink, because they don't know S.h.it about Teamwork, they only care for the next kill and their Kill/Death Ratio, or how to get the next Prestige Level.

So please don't change Brink into another CoD or MW it's fine the way it is, and NO ONE needs TDM, it's good for nothing, there's no Objektive it's just stupid killing.

I like to add, that I don't really think any game could do what CoD does better. There is no point trying, they nailed it, now let's do something else with the FPS genre.

From an outside point of view (I've never really played online before) the CoD fanatics seem to approach the brink forums and complain why this and that aren't more like CoD and overall, it seems to be THIS behavior that the "brink fans" react to. It's not CoD hating, more a lash out at people who stumble in the door and complain like mad, about something that was clearly never meant to compete one-on-one with CoD.

Edit: There does seem to be an abundance of dyslexics among some of the more rabid haters, which might also explain the disgusted backlash from people who still expect written media to be treated like written media, not a phonetic exercise in insults pertaining our sixual orientation and experience with online gaming.

^Agree.
Noone is saying COD is bad or that people who play COD are bad.
That doesn't mean that COD is Brink or that Brink is COD. They are 2 different shooters with 2 different styles. Some people will prefer one over the other, some people will enjoy both equally for different reasons.
We do not want to change COD into a Brink. Why should we want to change Brink into a COD?

Let it be said and known for all eternity:

I hate CoD.

Wish I never wasted my money on CoD4.

I could not have said it better myself so i shall just quote this and be done.

CoD is based around 'I'. 'I' win the game. 'I' am in first place. 'I' get the kills and survive.
BRINK is based around 'We'. 'We' win the game. 'We' support each other as much as possible.


I find a lot of medics just running around not reviving anyone because they want all 'their' pips to heal 'themselves'. Playing for the 'I'.
Whereas I usually go for a medic if 'my team' doesn't have one to revive 'my teammates' so they don't have to respawn and 'we' can keep the frontline.


It's not a plain hate towards Call of Duty - I like Call of Duty -, but it's pure hate towards the mindset of that game.

My point exactly.

There is no "I" in "Team",

you said it all good to know most of the Brink Players play as a Team.

CoD = Crowd of Dumbasses

k/d should, and i dont think ever, will be available, it ruins most online FPS that arent TDM.

i dont hate cod, i havent played it since the early days. what we dont want is loads of campers coming in with no concept of teamwork. brink is a team game. i will welcome cod players if they play for the team and go for a win rather than trying to pad stats.

yeah, us brinkers loving we(e)ing everywhere

I think the rest of the gaming community should thank Activision for its idiot magnet. Think of COD as a filter that babysits the brats and keeps them from infecting other communities with their bad gameplay and horrible demanding egos. Obviously there are a lot of decent, normal gamers who enjoy COD and have the ability to play other games that aren't COD without whining about the game not being COD and ZOMG WHERZ TE KILLSTREKZ AND DETHMATCH. Sadly for them they get lumped in with the mindless goons who think that having a high k/d score on a game that babysits you to such a degree that you could probably play it using your face, is something to be proud of.

it is like COD and FT2 had a baby and that baby had a baby with Mirrors Edge

I have better things to do than worry about which game my team mates came from. If my team is playing well, it doesn't matter to me where the players came from. A bad player is a bad player regardless of that. Each FPS has it's own flavor and playstyle. Comparing Brink to COD is foolish as the two games couldn't be further apart game play wise. I've had my fun with all the big name shooters on the XBOX.

^ True words.
It's the player that makes the difference.