No Dedicated Servers is NOT a Good Idea for COD MW2 or Any Other Game

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Why is no Dedicated Servers bad for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 you ask? Say if you stay in Egypt, and you want to play with someone in the United States online, well it won’t be possible because the servers from my understanding will only allow to connect to others in your region. Yes that will suck for a lot of Clan Members as well as solo gamers.

Infinity Ward’s community manager Robert Bowling has dropped a bombshell on the PC community by confirming there will be no dedicated servers for the eagerly anticipated sequel. Robert Bowling has revealed there are no plans for dedicated servers or mod support in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Instead, matchmaking on the PC will entirely go through a system on the back-end called IW.net.

Some gamers are even go as far as boycotting the game. Well the outcome of the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott did not favor to the boycotters so I don’t know how much gamers boycotting MW2 will do. There is even an a petition that people can electronically sign so that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 can have dedicated servers. From my sources and e-mails, these are the specific reasons why people are so pissed about the game:

• We’re doing a lot on the backend to make the game accessible for everyone.
• There is no delay for the PC version of MW2
• There’s prestige mode
• Jason West at the MP event, said that he was dead on, on the matchmaking servers. We’ve been building a system on the back-end called IW.NET.
• You are completely reliant on IW.NET. There are no server lists. There are no dedicated servers.
• You have private matches where you can customize the game
• You cannot put MW2 on a dedicated server.
• This is the first time we’ve ever done something like this and the team has huge plans for what IW.NET develops into.
• Customizing your game…you have quite a few options in a private match
• You’re getting same game (as in Console), plus matchmaking and private match.
• Server admin point-of view, NO DEDICATED SERVERS

Why would they make such a awesome game and throw a catch in there? And I thought the Left 4 Dead 2 boycotters had it bad. Well lets just be glad Activision had no part in making Left 4 Dead 2. The concept of forced matchmaking in itself annoys the crap out of me.

I wonder how many people have canceled their pre-order for the game because of this huge flaw. Well as far as PC gamers are concerned anyway but as for console gamers they won’t have any problems so I’m guessing the PC pre-orders are going to plummet while the console pre-orders are going to rise.

I guess those who will like to play with members in their clan they will have to stick with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare or Call of Duty: World at War. Or find good players in your region to join your clan. I know if I play the game, I won’t be playing online anyway, I want to play the storyline more than anything. Tis a sad day for gamers come November 10, 2009.