DICE Says Dedicated Server Support is "A Given" in Battlefield titles [Modern Warfare 2 Controversy]

HDgamer - 49 days 16 hours ago

This may be spam but got to give you a bubble.

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SilentShank - 49 days 16 hours ago

Chingalla no up tay!

Yeah ok follow you, I get it.

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evrfighter - 49 days 16 hours ago

DICE know their roots. I'm buying 2 copies of bad company 2.

Though it'll be kinda awkward trying to explain to my wife why she has a battlefield game on her pc.

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starcb26 - 49 days 15 hours ago

does this include consoles

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narked - 49 days 15 hours ago

agreed. iw and activision dont even measure up. Dice are in a different league.

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solar - 49 days 15 hours ago

the BF series has always been better then the CoD series.

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TheIneffableBob - 49 days 15 hours ago

I wouldn't say always -- Call of Duty 1 really rocked -- but Battlefield now is better than COD4/5/6.

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narked - 49 days 14 hours ago

if you compare cod 1 to bf2 ? or bf 1942? no it wasnt better than those im afraid.

in my opinion bf was always superior. shame we didnt get bc1 on pc but at least now we get their next installment :)

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Tachyon_Nova - 49 days 11 hours ago

You know what else is a given in any BF game - bugs and connection issues.

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kwicksandz - 49 days 11 hours ago

Now just give us a PC exclusive BF3 and you have a day 1 purchase!

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nbnt - 49 days 16 hours ago

Indeed.

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kaveti6616 - 49 days 15 hours ago

IW did not make the decision to cut out dedicated servers. They develop the games, Activision decides everything else.

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Pandamobile - 49 days 15 hours ago

No, the dedicated server bollocks was all Infinity Ward.

It is called IWNet after all.

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kaveti6616 - 49 days 12 hours ago

Well, then I stand corrected. I don't know why IW would do that. I assume they're going to be making plenty of money, enough to run many servers.

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Tachyon_Nova - 49 days 11 hours ago

Drowning in the sales of their own crap perhaps...

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badz149 - 49 days 9 hours ago

IW is well side by side with Acti here, showing teh big middle finger to the gaming community! while saying "SUCKERS!" again and again and again

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Timesplitter14 - 49 days 15 hours ago

Very true, and EA is cool again.

Ever since Dead Space, Crysis, Mirror's Edge, etc..., EA has made some very good stuff

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FantasyStar - 49 days 15 hours ago

Don't forget that all businesses are in it for the money and they'll say whatever's necessary to reassure people. Like advertisements and that annoying sales guy.

EA still sucks with 510 DLC and Activision still sucks. It'll take more than words to turn around all the crap EA's given us since Gen 6.

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Pandamobile - 49 days 12 hours ago

EA used to have a reputation for treating their customers like sh1t. They've turned that around and Activision has assumed the role of being the gigantic douche.

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Tachyon_Nova - 49 days 11 hours ago

EA didn't make Crysis, they merely published it as part of the EA partners thingo, whereby all EA does is distribute it and have minimal say into how the game turns out.

Why don't people like EA? I have never played a bad game made/published by them, and the list of their games that I own is above 20, so whats the deal?

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Pandamobile - 49 days 10 hours ago

There was a point when they used to buy up smaller studios, force their products out the door without them being fully polished, bug-tested, etc.

Their customer service was crap, etc.

But they came under new management and everything turned out alright.

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NRG - 49 days 12 hours ago

I think it would be easy to add.

Call of duty has always used IDTECH3 for their games (except maybe COD3), just more modified each time around. Each iteration was really just graphics overhauls. The support for online and dedicated servers is fundamental and hard-coded into the engine and hasn't changed drastically outside of the netcode and anti-lag mechanisms.

Chances are the ACCESSIBILITY of such features have been taken out, but the ability to do it is still there in the code. If IW really wanted to, I bet dedicated servers could easily be added through patches. At least, that's my prediction.

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Mr Logic - 49 days 14 hours ago

Meh. Personally I'm more interested in MAG. Ironically the large scale battles give a sense of togetherness, because if you're squad fails at your task your are letting down the whole army.

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cyberwaffles - 49 days 14 hours ago

yeah, i'm really looking forward to mag and bad company 2. mag is like a mix of RTS and FPS for me (if you're a squad/platoon/team leader that is.) i can't wait to play it tomorrow.

raven ftw!

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omni_atlas - 49 days 6 hours ago

Don't forget their sports series,

FIFA and NBA are balling pretty well this year.

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