A little after the news broke about Infinity Ward not having dedicated servers for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 the outcry was so loud that almost 123,000 people (most likely more by now) have signed a petition asking Infinity Ward to reconsider. Recently Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling acknowledged the protest and dropped the full details on IWNET.
For those that don’t know, IWNET is the matchmaking system that is essentially replacing dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2. The system allows playlists, private matches, a party system, a friend list, cheat/hack free games and supplies the gamer with smoother gameplay. As Bowling puts it: “IWNET takes the benefits of dedicated servers and allows them to be utilized and accessed by every player, out of the box, while removing the barrier to entry for players unaware of how to maintain a server on their own.”
The matchmaking will be made much simpler in MW2 as Bowling explains:
All you have to do is select the playlist (pre-set gametypes with custom rules) that fits the style of play you are in the mood for. When you do, it will automatically find you a game with the best performance, ping, and preferences based on your location and individual connection as well as matching you with players of your same SKILL.
Even this news hasn’t slowed the outcry as Bowling’s post has seen nearly 4,000 comments on the new system…many of the “not-so-friendly” variety.
So, what do you think? Will this new system replace dedicated servers for good or is this experiment destined for failure? The proof will obviously be in the pudding as they say on November 10th, but until then you can give your two cents below.
Can only say… FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU INFINITY WARD.
M’kay?
I’m very disappointed with the move. It is perfectly within the rights of any company to make as much money as they can. They CANNOT pretend that the decision to go the matchmaking direction with IW.NET and exclude dedicated servers will be a benefit to PC gamers. Killing off the modding community will help them sell DLC to the PC community that is used to getting patches, updates, and new content for free.
I’m not angry, mostly sad this promising looking game COULD have been so much better if they allowed dedicated servers alongside the matchmaking. Why they will not do both? Answer from IW: “It would just bifurcate the community” hmm, I smell bullshit.
They dont give a shit about the PC community and they only want people to play their game with an controller.
”60% of the poeple who play MW on PC have downloaded the game ellegaly”
I think we all know that that’s bullshit. There’s more pirates on the 360 and they get all the options that a person who bought the game would get. They get to play with the people who bought the game. You cant do that on the PC.
They are trying to get rid of the PC community who has supported them ever since they released the first call of duty game that was ONLY released for the PC.
I’m wondering what’s going to happen with all the big companies that’s selling graphic cards etc. Now there wont be any reason to upgrade your computer.
What happend to the promises they made. They said that MW2 would have dedicated servers. We all know that it’s going to lagg if you’re playing p2p. This fucking sucks! Fuck Activision and fuck IW you’ve lost a customer.
( A speciall fuck you too Bobby Kotick )
i’ve been playing games online on pc since i was 11 years old now 18 and i have never had problems with severs part from the odd hack or two and they got taken care of. i think they should make it back to the way it was and that IW are making it more and more like console online whats a load of piss when they say same skill you will be but in a group with a shit load of guys with a lot of levels highter and are better than you, but they have forgotten it was us pc gamers that made cod. bring back dedicated servers!!
i put a battle cry on this under skirmish 49 but i can elaborate much more here. honestly IW is doing this cause of Activision plain and simple, why do you think there was no multiplayer beta. IW knew if this got out way too early they were going to get screwed from the PC community. all of the responses IW has even made concerning the petition and outcry have been ignorant and disrespectful. blaming piracy?? thats the funniest damn thing ever. if any of these so called journalists actually did research and looked at the numbers they would see that less then 5% of all PC gamers that play COD4 are using an illegal copy and even then 1% have the knowledge in coding to create hacks and key generators so they can play on any server and would swiftly get the boot from admins. lets take a look at that 360 now that number is closer to 35% using an illegal copy of the game and they can run it with no problems playing anyone they like.
i smell something on the bottom of my shoe and Bobby Kotick is all over it.
IW.net will replace dedicated servers, but it will be for the worse.
No one wants it. No one except Activision and their money grubbing hands.
There’s no logical reason they can’t copy and paste the features from MW to MW2 in regards to dedicated servers and have that option alongside loser.net.
I think the IW.NET is going to go nowhere other than 2 steps back. PC gaming is about having few limitations when it comes to altering games. The moment you purposefully make a system that pretty well locks down any ability to alter the game you totally screw all the PC gamers over.
I doubt they’ll change anything because of these petitions because they really don’t care that people are pissed off about it because they know half the people threatening to boycott it are eventually going to get it.
Aside from the shafting the consumer is getting I’m more saddened that IW is selling into this system. They’ve always seemed like an insanely top quality company that wouldn’t ever think of pulling such a dick move.
i just hope EBC crew is going to be smart enough on the next EBC and not blame this on pirates like a lot of people are doing…
they must realize pirates will pirate the game regardless of what IW or Activision decided to do, the legit pc community is the real victim here, they supported them from the beginning and still have to pay more for a worst service than previous iterations of the game…
only just so they can shove it to you paid map packs for a year and then let the game die quicker to make you buy the next cod
i canceled my pre-order and i really hope they do bad with the pc version of the game… not because i hate them or for revenge, they simply have to learn a lesson..
They can do all of this while still allowing dedicated servers to exist next to theirs. Their argument is completely flawed and rehashing what is good about their IWNET doesn’t even address the point.
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