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John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For Rage

Posted by Soulskill on from the will-you-rage-over-rage dept.

AndrewDBarker writes "Modern Warfare 2 will use a matchmaking setup powered by IWNet for online play (as we've discussed). It's too early to say what Rage will use, but Carmack indicated he believed the servers are something of a remnant of the early days of PC gaming. That said, he realizes the affinity many PC gamers have for them — and is glad Rage won't be leading the charge away from them. 'The great thing is we won't have to be a pioneer on that,' he says. 'We'll see how it works out for everyone else.'"

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  1. Re:What rage will be like. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What if... now here me out on this one, What if we... were to combine the barrels and the crates somehow? We could call them Barrates or, crarrels.
    Come on, work with me here people, either keep up or get out of my way.

    Sheesh.

  2. Re:A remnant? by Stormwatch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you are mistaken. There was no game called Doom 3. There was, however, a tech demo by that name...

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  3. Re:Glad to see he's not charging forward by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 2, Funny

    screenshot of doom4(uses raytracing)

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  4. Re:Having no dedicated servers is a bad idea by DavoMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I think that the big companies will find any way they can to charge you 2 cents every time you push 'start'. And then someone will think of the idea to charge you one cent to press 'stop'.

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