So I had this great idea to play some ante up wager matches with friends only. I called it- Wager Wednesday -and tee'd up myself and five other friends to play. We all jumped on at the time we organised and I hosted the match inviting my friends.
At first we had issues getting a game because one of us had a moderate nat, he left corrected it and re-joined us. Finally after that we managed to play a game of One in the chamber together. One of us left after losing all his lives to fix a problem with his mic. When we went to start the next game he was unable to rejoin us as he was told he did not have enough CoD points to participate despite having over a hundred and fifty thousand points available.
Despite this we played a couple of TDM games to acquire him some more points. When we restarted not only was he still told that he didn't have enough points to play- another two members of our group were now told that they couldn't afford to play! At that point we'd spent over an hour correcting nats, ending parties to see if that would help, fixing mic issues, getting others to host the lobby, and trying to earn CoD points, only to have played one game of One in the chamber.
So we called Wager Wednesday a fail and went off and played some six player private matches and had a great time. But I don't understand why we had so many issues? We played ante up so parties would be allowed (even though we disbanded the party just incase that was part of our grief), we all have tens of thousands of CoD points available, we all had open nats eventually, we had a full lobby, why was this not working and why were some of us told we didn't have enough points to play?
I'm not going to come up with some BS about how I hate the game now, because that just ain't true. I love Black Ops and can't wait for the sequel, but I'd like to know if there's something I can do to get Wager Wednesdays off the ground for me and my mates to have a blast with Black Ops every once and awhile.
Thanks for any response in advance.