sorry to say this but no. they feel it's fine the way it is.

It's absolutely terrible at the moment, mostly because the kids are on school holiday, which means shared connections and people using wifi.

What annoys me most of all is that fact IW or activision don't keep us updated.

You could always try adjusting your router settings a bit as well. I took my IPV6 and IPV4 firewalls off and I connect to a lot more matches a lot more easily now, seems that it's made a decent different after this most recent patch. Are the matches I get into better conection quality over all, no. But the point is that it is increasing my odds and making it easier to join matches, so by allowing myself to connect to more people I figure I've got a better shot at finding a good match. Just quit the rest with shitty connections, no point sticking around.

Also, you'll find every match varries pretty drastically as far as connection and lag quality through the durration of a match even maintaining the same host. Not really anything you can do unfortunately aside from possibly tweak your router and internet to connect with more people and turn your theatre mode off.

There has been lag compensation in the game since CoD4, but for some reason I feel like they messed with a code that has been working since 2008.

Lag compensation is necessary, I just wish they didn't mess with something that worked fine in previous titles. Clearly IWs devs haven't heard the phrase "if it aint broke don't fix it" because they took something that worked fine, attempted to make it better, and failed

They obviously can't fix it.  If they could it would have been fixed by now.  They weren't able to fix the host lag with Black Ops either. I still can't play that game without lagging like a mo' fo' so I have no interest in buying Black Ops 2 (twice the lag, half the fun).

The sad thing is MW3 played fine for me at the beginning except when I was host.  With every patch they implement the lag progressively gets worse.  I definitely haven't played it as much lately and decided to play a few matches last night and boy the lag was just pathetic.

I won't be buying any of the DLC and won't be buying any further COD games.  I will be going back to adventure and racing games which is what I always played before COD4.  I'll be playing Assassins Creed: Revelations.  Bought it for my daughter for Christmas and haven't taken the time to play it yet.

It's sad to see such a great franchise go down the toilet but all good things must come to an end.

Maybe respawn entertainment will come to the rescue and make a game worthy of my attention.

Now you know how the rest of us felt for the last four months .. Guess your not as beast as you thought ..

yeah, the old games feel much better with lag, mw3 u can't even react.