Having played 5 Call of Duty versions for XBOX 360 and the original on PC when it was released, I am now thoroughly dissappointed in this franchise and will never buy Call of Duty again.

Strike 1: How can you "compensate" for someone else's poor internet connection? You punish those of us with a proper connection and reward those who barely qualify as high-speed internet users.

Strike 2: You provide a means to compensate against two 40mm grenades to appease the masses against "noob tubers." You then diminish this by giving them a 16-round semi-automatic 40mm grenade launcher.

Strike 3: The expectation is to make it to a particular prestige and then you add five more. You say this was done because "people will keep playing" if this is there. I've gotten to the top prestige in four out of five of the XBOX releases (I really didn't like Black Ops so I sold it).

I hope that Activision, IW, Sledgehammer (what a hackjob of a shop that is) and everyone else realizes how poorly you've made this experience for not just me, but countless others. Because of your inability to plan, develop and structure accordingly, your software is horrendous. Should you wish to challenge my technical thinking on this, please do keep into consideration I hold a background is software and database development. I do understand the software development cycle. Nothing innovative and nothing revolutionary. Minecraft is a better online experience than your multiplayer.

I sincerely do hope that Treyarch will withdraw from making any further releases including Black Ops 2. Black Ops 2 is nothing more:

A out-dated engine, and

Stolen ideas from two different games (Metal Gear Solid and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier [if you don't believe me, go to ign.com and watch the trailers for these games]).

Basically, Black Ops 2 is plagrisim at its finest.