Comments on: No dedicated servers for Modern Warfare 2 on PC

By: Boycotts zijn het nieuwe zwart. (Deel 2) « PIXELBRAINED

Boycotts zijn het nieuwe zwart. (Deel 2) « PIXELBRAINED — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:15:42 +0000

[...] Een paar weken geleden kondige ontwikkelaar Infinity Ward aan dat Modern Warfare 2 voor PC geen geen ondersteuning zal hebben voor dedicated servers. In het kort, Infinity Ward zal zelf alle multiplayer servers voorzien door middel van hun [...]

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By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:15:07 +0000

This is ridiculus..they just do this so if new maps come out you have to buy them..Like with xbox and so on..I love the COD series..have played the complete series..I preordered cod MW2.. but gues what..I canceled it..just to make a statement..I dont want to play on a frigging userserver made by a producer just so i have to pay for new features or maps..They try to milk the cow..but the cow is dry..hahahahaha..No way im gonna buy that game..no more..if ya preordered it..Cancel the order…just to show them, dont mess with the people who made the game this big..first there was only the pc version and later the console came..so read this Invinity aka Activision..give us dedicated servers..Ohhh and what if their server fails? ya cant play, or you lose all your items, and so on? no way.. let me store it on my pc..numnutz…

By: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Petition Really Necessary? | GamePex

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Petition Really Necessary? | GamePex — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:00:00 +0000

[...] the news that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the PC will not be supporting dedicated servers (Read up, kiddies.), many fellow gamers simply lost it. Comments were shot around the internet at a million miles per [...]

By: Bo

Bo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:30:53 +0000

The only reason I can think, gameplay wise, for them to do this is host migration. That’s one of the big features for consoles and I’m guessing they decided after all that time and effort to get it working, they might as well throw it onto PCs as well.

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Weekly Roundup: Version 1.0 Edition | GamePex — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:52:49 +0000

[...] No dedicated servers for Modern Warfare 2 on PC [...]

By: darthveggie

darthveggie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:51:44 +0000

I remember that. That annoying waste of programming made me so angry when compared to the original.

By: AndrewD

AndrewD — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:25:31 +0000

Just as an aside, this reminds me of when I bought Deus Ex 2 for the PC. The UI was awful and clearly designed for a console. The levels were small and compact, obviously designed to lessen the stress of loading times on a console. What a waste of a game.

By: AndrewD

AndrewD — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:22:58 +0000

As someone who has been playing the Call of Duty series competitively for a number of years, this is quite a blow. Every CoD iteration has needed a least a few tweaks in order to make it competition ready. Does IW really care about the competitive crowd? Not really. Well, I take that back: they like the competitive console players. This is another move to mainstream PC games and kill off the customization we’ve grown accustomed to.

A lot of us live or die by how we ping to a server. Where a server is located makes a huge difference. I will not play on a California server, as it leaves me at a huge disadvantage to those on the West Coast. I really doubt IW’s fancy-but-likely-to-underperform networking technology will do much good when the server decides to make some moron running a 128/k DSL line out of San Diego the server host.

Sigh.

By: darthveggie

darthveggie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:16:43 +0000

This is a rather tough pill to swallow. It’s a big middle finger to fans who preferred to run their own servers, and especially to clans. It, in most aspects, defeats the purpose of even developing and trying to sell the game for PC’s. That’s the only reason why anyone would buy it for the PC if they own an Xbox 360, so that they can play with mods and run servers with their friends.

It does, however, prevent people from illegally downloading the game and running it through private servers via third party software like Hamachi. That’s a good move on the developer’s part considering it ensures an actual purchase. It seems a bit…Microsoft-y though.