Bye bye Dedicated Servers!

27 October 2009 by: Matt Bellezza

modern-warfare-2With the release of Modern Warfare 2 right around the corner, you cant’t help to feel a little anxious and a tad bit nervous that it will live up to its expectations. And Just when you thought the game we’ve all been waiting for couldn’t possibly have any hickups in the next 2 weeks before its released, Infinity Ward makes an announcement that could potentially cause them to loose their PC gamer backing. Well, I dunno if I’d even call it an announcement.

Infinity Ward happen to mention on a fan site, (yes fan site, not even there own site)  that they would be doing away with dedicated servers. This doesn’t really have a strong impact on Console gamers other then the method of how they navigate through server lists, but for PC gamers it means no more modding, no more custom matches, no more custom anything in regards to multi-player.

Apparently the new system will resemble the Xbox live connection experience. As a non-Xbox owner I cannot comment on what this means, but I can only guess it has something to do with connecting directly to peers. So if the peer logs off mid match, the rest of the gamers connected to that peer get booted. Please, please, someone enlighten me on what this means, because I’m pretty upset. Not as upset as the 200,000 PC gamers who said they will boycott the game, but still mad enough to take a few minutes away from replaying Call of Duty Moder Warfare 1 before the new release to write this blog post.

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  • mlbellez
    As of now its not looking good for us, Look out for my review as soon as I get the game. I'm going to dissect the hell out of this game :)

    Thanks for the comment! Keep reading, and we'll keep posting.
  • brandonlanesyr09
    That can't be good news for PC COD fans. I am an Xbox owner and addicted Modern Warfare 1 player, (literally 1 of only 3 games i have for the system). I can attest that there is nothing more frustrating then when youre going on an absolute tear and some noob who happens to have the strongest conenction backs out and voids every kill and stat you just put up. I have never played any COD on PCs but from the way you decribed it I really wish Xbox had dedicated servers to do away with this problem. Especially with the amount of people that are going to flood the 360 servers all at once on Nov 10th.