Infinity Ward Responds To PC Fanboys' Dedicated Server Woes

[[RC]Hunter]

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The entire community is now up in arms about this, not least because of the insulting and condescending tone taken by the IW's top men in responding to the issue of not having dedicated servers in CoD6, check this out:

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Modern Warfare fansite bashandslash.com recently reported that Infinity Ward is removing dedicated server functionality from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. With dedicated servers and the server browser that comes with them replaced with custom-built matchmaking, PC gamers will have an online experience functionally identical to console players. Among other things, this means that clans can't run their own servers with their own mods and rulesets for their own private (or public, if they feel like crushing some scrubs for giggles) use.

Predictably, nerds across world took to the Internet with a wailing and a gnashing of teeth that would make the Left 4 Dead community proud. An online petition to bring back dedicated servers at the time of this writing stands at 100,000+ signatures. However -- and this may shock some gamers with advanced persecution complexes -- this move was not made to tweak the noses of the PC community. Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella explain the decision as a conscious effort to improve their game for the vast majority of their players.

"We're just prioritizing the player experience above the modders and the tuners," says West. He points toward the mounting feedback IW has received from PC fans of Modern Warfare who couldn't find a decent server to play on between all of the cheaters, the insular communities, and huge skill level disparities that the original game's community fractured into. "We thought maybe it would be cool if the fans could play the game," he laughs.

IW says that gameplay concerns for the majority of MW2 players are the overriding reasons for the decision. Zampella downplays the obvious piracy prevention angle (IW has cited numbers of people online playing illegal copies of Modern Warfare up to 60 percent). "The Steam stuff helps with the piracy. I don't know that the matchmaking stuff does," he notes. West takes a shot at the motives behind some of the outrage, noting that there's money to made by selling dedicated servers and adspace on them: "It's a little dubious. Some of the people complaining are complaining with their pocketbook."

Again and again during our conversation, West and Zampella hammer the point that hardcore PC players lose very little to this change relative to the returns that casual to moderate fans will see. Clans can set up private matches to do their training or what have you; all they lose is the ability to customize the game on a deeper level with mods and such. Infinity Ward sees the addition of solid matchmaking and community support like IW-run tournaments to the PC as a huge win, and not something that could be done under the old system.

Why not have both? West does not want to include dedicated servers alongside the custom-built backend, stating that it would just "bifurcate the community."


Source:
gameinformer.com

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To update above article, since it is a few days old already, the petition can be found here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/dedis4mw/petition.html

if you still want to sign it. It reached at this moment 177678 total signatures ... what an amazing number. Yes it can be easily tweaked to sign multiple times, but still ... but IW does not really care about.

First online stores took CoD6 for PC out of their offers, due to receiving too many cancelations of the already collected pre orders. For example Blockbuster.UK is one of these large and well known online stores.

Kinda funny ...

Hunter

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haha, i can only hope that cod6 will be a huge flop and financial desaster for infinity ward. they would definitely learn something from it, like not ignoring one of the most important things in business world - the expectations and needs of CUSTOMERS...

[[RC]BooZer]

Oh yes - IW has to bleed for their undescribable arrogancy to their customers!!! [img]http://www.clusterwars.net/userpix/3_box_1.gif[/img]

"We thought maybe it would be cool if the fans could play the game," he laughs.

Pahh, what noobs they are!! And I say: f*** yourself [img]http://www.clusterwars.net/userpix/3_finger2_1.gif[/img]

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lol yeah, love that quote. like it was THAT hard to connect to a fkin server using a server browser. seems like even all those nubs in bfv manage to do that. but maybe IW expects the average iq level of their players to be lower than that of bfv players, LMAO