ThruIT » Multiplayer http://thruit.com Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:39:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bye bye Dedicated Servers! http://thruit.com/2009/10/bye-bye-dedicated-servers/ http://thruit.com/2009/10/bye-bye-dedicated-servers/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:39:44 +0000 Matt Bellezza http://thruit.com/?p=167 With 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.]]> 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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