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CoD: Black Ops To Get Dedicated Game Servers

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 16, 2010 @06:07AM from the that's-dedication dept.

roh2cool writes "The seventh Call of Duty game is being planned, and it has been dubbed Call of Duty: Black Ops. This game will be developed by Treyarch instead of Infinity Ward. Mark Lamia, Treyarch studio head, confirmed with CVG that in CoD: Black Ops, players will get dedicated game servers for the PC version of the game. Finally, PC gamers will get a chance to rejoice."

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Re:How? by haystor · 2010-05-16 08:16 · Score: 5, Informative

It does not. It now means that a server runs just that program, instead of a client running the client and server.
Take Bad Company 2 for instance. You can rent servers from their approved vendors. So, while they are technically dedicated servers, they are someone else's servers that are just being rented. The traditional commands available to server admins are no longer there. Basically, for BC2, "dedicated servers" means that we get to pay for their servers.

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