Infinity Ward On Dedicated Servers

catguykyou - 51 days 19 hours ago

Not lack. It's disabled for certain game modes to abide by the game rules they want to enforce for those modes. For instance, in team deathmatch, they wont let dead team members talk to live ones. This is done to prevent dead members telling their team what the other team is doing. Games like free for all wont have private chats disabled.

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mauleriscool - 51 days 21 hours ago

judging by your name you have never experienced a real game on pc.

No matter what anti hacking software they use on pc, there will ALWAYS be cheaters.

I've played cod4 on every system and to tell you the truth, the consoles versions are the worst. I've matched with ppl in germany 4 games in a row. I had red bar ping for almost every game.
When I even get perfect 4 bar ping the game fells like 150 ping on pc would(which is garbage)

I know what your thinking, "Your connection is trash". Right after playing 4 germany host I go on my pc, join a cod4 server with 22 ping and game runs flawlessly.

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Budg3tG4m3r - 51 days 20 hours ago

Been PC gaming since 1994

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Veni Vidi Vici - 51 days 18 hours ago

I'm sorry, but if you think playing on LIVE or PSN is lag free, you don't know what lag free means. I can tell when my ping is over 100 without even looking. There is a HUGE advantage to players with better pings with is what the host will have and even if everyone had the same 150+ ping, it still feels like garbage because of the delay.

If you're in a clan with players spread across the world, you can forget about playing together because the pings will be so horrible.

Also, there won't be any mod support so you can forget about this game staying fresh for very long. FPS PC games have very long lives simply due to the fact that modders can make new maps, weapons, gametypes, etc. This alone decreases the value of the game.

Finally, cheating is everywhere. PC, PSN, LIVE. It's just a fact of life. That's why there are moderators to monitor this stuff. Now that we won't have dedis, you can forget having any moderators. There will be cheating even on IW.NET. Count on it.

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evrfighter - 51 days 19 hours ago

he basically stated that the 177k are made up of repeat signers. It took a few weeks of repeating that to themselves but has finally paid off and they seem to believe it.

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Sitdown - 51 days 21 hours ago

has the video game market gotten so big that gamers can now tell developers how to develop their game, and what's best? Its like telling Picasso do paint differently, or tell Mozart to rearrange his music....this is their art, if you like it, purchase it...if not, then don't. But at the end of the day...let it go...unless some how your life is hinged on a $60 dollar game. Such strong entitlements people have...

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maxx1223 - 51 days 20 hours ago

Because IW.net(p2p) will totally prevent all sorts of cheating from taking place right? If you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you. seriously.

In the end, this decision basically prevents any sort of coherent MW2 community from ever forming. I'm not sure this is the best business practice, but apparently IW/AV wants to find out this answer. I would think that inherently this would NOT be the case as there currently still exists dedicated servers for CS which is 10yrs old at this point...

And this is customers telling their prospective company that they will not purchase the product which they are selling in the current state. In fact its (hopefully) north of 150,000 customers (me being one of them), which translates to $9,000,000.00. And while nobody's life is hinged on a $60 game, hopefully a 9 million dollar loss in revenue is enough for a company to take notice about an essential product feature for the PC platform.

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Sitdown - 51 days 20 hours ago

just because somebody says they are going to boycott a game, does not necessarily mean they will...I would not necessarily put much stock in those numbers. Also, companies do not make the full $60 off the games, so even the sales figures for revenue would be inaccurate. But even then you have to ask yourself, if IW is at risk of losing such revenue, and still feels justified in what they are doing.........then perhaps they know something that we don't know.

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Veni Vidi Vici - 51 days 17 hours ago

Keep telling yourself that cheaters are the reason they are doing IWNET. Have you played a game on steam? L4D or TF2? They are going to use the same anti-cheat measures that this game will use and both those games have cheating. This will not fix cheating at all.

The real reason they are doing this is purely profits. The PC market share for this game is very small when compared to the consoles so they don't really care what the PC consumers have to say because they know that in the end, their money mainly comes from the consoles.

On top of that, they will be able to charge for DLC on PC due to this.

Also, Sitdown, do you know nothing about marketing? The market/consumer is EXACTLY what tells producers how and what to make. This is nothing new. The consumer should and does tell the producer how to make their products because if they don't, the producer won't sell any product.

If a chef makes a fancy dish and the consumer doesn't like the way it tastes, he'd better change the way it tastes or the consumer won't buy the food anymore. Even if the chef thinks the dish is perfect the way it is, he'd better change it.

Because the PC market is so small though, I doubt IW will do a thing simply because they will be able to be highly profitable simply based on console sales.

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Sitdown - 51 days 15 hours ago

I think you should ask yourself the question first, "do you know nothing about marketing"? Part of marketing is to get people to purchase your product, if your product was always determined by the market/consumer...then they would just freely purchase it without the need for "marketing". As much as you would like us to believe through your restaurant example, the market/consumer does not always dictate what a producer does. Again...look at Picasso...Mozart. You might not know this...but not everybody chases money, and some artist are more concerned with their vision being realized...and as a result, their product is purchased because of their vision. Is bluray a result of consumers saying they needed clearer movies? Are tvs at their current state because of consumer demand? I am thinking not likely...the competitive nature of business cause them to put in the time and energy to deliver a better product so they outsell their competition...not necessarily because consumers asked for it. Now to close this out...let me show you how you shut down your own statement.

"The consumer should and does tell the producer how to make their products because if they don't, the producer won't sell any product.....Because the PC market is so small though, I doubt IW will do a thing simply because they will be able to be highly profitable simply based on console sales."

So what does your statement say? The PC market will not be telling the producer how to make their game.

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Pandamobile - 51 days 16 hours ago

There was no Nvidia splash screen when the map packs were released.

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kornbeaner - 51 days 15 hours ago

there was already a deal in place. Not sure if it was changed, but when the game first launched on PC there was a video option for a Sli setting, not dual video but SLi. To most it wouldn't mean much except that ATI cards also had Crossfire setups that were pretty much ignored at the launch of the game. The game was optimized for Nvidia chipsets and setups, there for I'm pretty sure they flipped the bill for the map pack on PC.

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kornbeaner - 51 days 14 hours ago

for first person shooters on console. Yes this is talking about he PC version but they are going to a use a Console P2P architecture when using IWnet for PC online. That way nobody feels left out. Now Console users and PC user will have no fun with their meager 9 v 9 online matches. Not only that be prepared PC fans for the disappointment of a 8 player cap in your FFA matches, a far cry from the 32 player fragfest presented with dedicated server in MW1, W@W and just about any modern PC FPS out there. LoL, IW: "We care about the players experience" if that means sucking all the fun of what could've been a fun game, you sure are delivering.

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