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No Dedicated Servers For CoD: Modern Warfare 2
An anonymous reader writes "Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling (aka fourzerotwo), in an interview with BashandSlash.com on October 17th, announced that one of the mainstays of PC multiplayer gaming, dedicated servers, won't be in IW's upcoming sequel to Call of Duty 4. Instead, players will use the unknown 'IW Net' for matchmaking purposes. No dedicated servers means no player mods, no player maps, no organized competitive play, no clan servers, etc., and strips away what makes PC gaming different from console gaming. Many vocal gamers have canceled their pre-orders, and a petition to reverse this decision is already past 86,000 signatures."
Never buy sequels.
I mean CoD 4 alerady. Is this EA or what ?
Compared to the console market, PC gaming is worth next to nothing. The levels of piracy in PC gaming doesn't make it worthwhile anymore, especially compared to console sales. So whilst once upon a time, consoles got the port of a PC game, now we get the port of the console one. And that means peer to peer hosting and no dedicated servers.
We have well and truly started to reap what we've sewn.
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buying anything activision/blizzard/eidos/ea is akin to supporting the worst DRM using big name companies that exist. These companies have constantly screwed their customers over "piracy". Even mentioning the term still shows how out of wack they are when they redefined the phrase to fit their own purpose in the first place.
There are lots of good games that don't involve them in this day and age, thankfully.
I pirate, and thankfully it takes minimal effort since our lan events take care of that. Need COD MW2? I'm sure someone's got it on DVD. Who has the crack? etc over there.
Boo Hoo....so you suck ass server admins are crying over the loss of your precious ability to boot/ban people from your pathetic rented servers. Now you're all on the same level...and now you have to actually rely on your non-existent skills instead of cheats. Get over it. This new system is a welcome relief. If they can get it anywhere close to something like XBL matchmaking....it will be great. So swallow that over inflated ego and just get over it.
Dedicated server means "The company itself runs the server or pays someone to run a server network".
Simply supplying the software to run in server mode is not a "dedicated server".
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Wow, you guys sure seem to get upset over a game....its just a game.
Its this simple, if it bugs you that much, don't buy it. I'm not gonna buy it, the game doesn't even look that appealing to me...just a rehashed FPS.
You seem not to understand that nothing has come out of open collaboration that even sniffs at the butthole of games coming from large corps, and since many of us like this kind of polish and feature-rich gameplay, "open collaboration" is not a suitable substitute.
Please get off your high horse, the clouds are affecting your view of the real world.