Funny rant that. Just turned it off after 6 massively laggy games straight, so I'm not in a position to vote objectively. Think it has some good stuff in it, but who cares if you can't have a decent game or play your DLC. I tell you this much, I'm thinking of canceling my BOII preorder and seeing where the chips fall after Xmas, and by that I mean connections and whether or not it is worth paying for DLC.

I'd say yes. If you look past the lag, they introduced several new and exciting things in MW3 and they have been working hard to improve the game.  Now looking at the lag, yes its often bad but I can still remember playing BO and it lagged too.  Less now than then but they've had nine months of MW3 out plus all of their time in BO to work things out.  I'm hoping that Treyarch brings us BO2 with minimal lag issues but I won't be suprised if they struggle out the gate as well.  I fully expect that 6 months from now everone will be down on Treyarch for whatever BO2's issues are and praising just how great IW and MW3 was.  It's a cycle and we always seem to have the most problems with whomever the guy is in the drivers seat at the time.

For me its a yes, my only problems are launchers the way they are in HC, final-stand and machine pistols as backup weapons, with the lag situation what on earth do you guys expect, your playing a game with 11 people across the world which after travelling from them to you it then has to go through a console then through a TV screen then through your controller and don't start with oh but the lag comp, my answer to that is learn to deal with it, same with spawns and maps, its only been out what 9 months yet you still complain, if it bothers you so much don't play.

no, they shouldn't have another shot at it. why should they?  MW3 and elite is epic fail.  I really wanted to like this game and i really wish they would have fixed the lag issue but they haven't.  If given up on the hope of them fixing it.  IMO its all of to 3arc to save the franchise.  Ppl can chime in and tell us all they want. that we wills still by another iw ver of CoD but i wont. I can assure you of that.

MW3 had a few strong points. The multiplayer, imo, started out better than it's come to be, whatever kind of multi-patched trash bag of a system it is now. I live in the gulf coast, and play regularly with a buddy of mine who lives in Milwaukee, and for the first, 12 or 13 prestiges, we played fine. Recently, however, the matchmaking has made it impossible for us to play anything, even Survival Mode or Spec Ops missions.

So, that's the connection issues.

Deathstreaks: Why reward a player for going 0-6, and give him a remote detonated C4 upon his 7th death, only to kill a guy that has been excelling at the current game, and stop him short of getting his Reaper or AC-130? That makes zero sense.

Spawn System: I've literally had killcams where the guy can see his own body dying as he's spawning, just to poke right out and get immediate payback. Maps like Seatown, Carbon, Hardhat, it's almost pointless to  kill anybody, because they're going to spawn right behind you, turn ONE corner, and kill you again.

Now, for what it's worth, W@W was complete trash, I don't think I've ever bought and re-sold a game as quickly as that, and I played Black ops for a total of, 15 minutes. The engines just didn't feel the same as Cod4, Mw2, and Mw3, and I didn't feel like trying to readjust. But now, in the later stages of mw3, when the lag and connections are getting so horrible, I almost feel like going play Black ops, just because of their dedicated servers. At least I'll know I'll get some decent, and full, games in. Even if my guy feels like he's being suspended in the air by rubber bands.

I'm only hopeful for Black Ops II because it's been stated that the devs are working with MLG to make a game that will be competitive, and that to me is all I'm concerned about. Better maps, better spawns, better lay outs, and hopefully better connection. They tried to fix the garbage matchmaking system in mw3, maybe this can be used as a great head start for mw4, or BO2.

Should they make a new one? Nope.