Comments on: Dedicated Servers Will Come At A Price For Black Ops

By: Sage-BRIG-

Sage-BRIG- — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:56:11 +0000

Coming from a decade of being a squad (started in Delta Force Land Warrior) we have hosted our own and rented throughout the years, the rental aspect doesn’t bother me, and if you had a decent rig with good connection, you likely wouldn’t either. (I will be happy to build ya something you wont have those issues with) The only negative thus far, is on ranked, you can not switch teams to be with your squad……Bad idea, BC2 blows it away for a squad based game. They took 5 yrs worth of progress backwards with this decision, squads are the only thing that keep a game alive for more than 6 months, they batter fix it or it will be only a side game for us.

By: MW2fail

MW2fail — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:21:16 +0000

I for one, have had it with P2P online gaming, especially in the FPS world. WolfET, minus the bazillion hackers, was my favorite old-skool environment for this type of gameplay, and it truly sounds as if Activision is shooting for that kind of atmosphere (again, hopefully, minus the bazillion hackers).
*crosses fingers*

By: jimbonics

jimbonics — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:55:34 +0000

I see this as a good move. SOMEONE is going to be paying for the server rental in the old school model, and an 18 man server goes for lots more than 10 a month. This solves the peer-to-peer problem, and gives people an affordable option of a dedicated server without having to hassle with a clan. Similarly, clans can rent servers for CHEAP.

Assuming server performance is not an issue, there is nothing wrong with this model in my book. YOU dont have to pay 10 a month.

In other words, if you’ve never had to co-ordinate with a server company or have been responsible for paying 100+ a month for your clans dedi server, shut it.

By: Nacelle

Nacelle — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:03:02 +0000

In reply to ScrewTheIndustry. I know not being able to host local servers for LAN parties has ruined Battlefield Bad Company 2. Most of the time we can't even play if the internet is bogged down by someone downloading updates or something. We end up just moving on to something else. Without local dedicated servers, it a no-buy.

By: ScrewTheIndustry

ScrewTheIndustry — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:24:26 +0000

In reply to Anon. Agreed good Sir

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:21:40 +0000

Why thank you oh wise business people. Let us turn good old PC gaming into a whoring money grabbing operation by following a more console like model. I’d like to pay $10 /month to play a SINGLE game. Those stupid idiots wanting to run their own software on their own hardware.. we don’t need any of that nonsense… no we dont.

Fail.

By: MilkyWay

MilkyWay — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:59:45 +0000

Power Trip’n Server Admins!!!!! =P

By: XIng Soo

XIng Soo — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:44:19 +0000

Oh wow, you know thats gonna be good right?

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