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Infinity Ward on MW2 Servers

[Oct 20, 2009, 3:02 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Infinity Ward Responds To PC Fanboys' Dedicated Server Woes on GameInformer.com has more follow-up to complaints that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will not include a dedicated server (thanks Bob Bob). Here's a bit of what they learned from Infinity Ward's Jason West and Vince Zampella:

"We're just prioritizing the player experience above the modders and the tuners," says West. He points toward the mounting feedback IW has received from PC fans of Modern Warfare who couldn't find a decent server to play on between all of the cheaters, the insular communities, and huge skill level disparities that the original game's community fractured into. "We thought maybe it would be cool if the fans could play the game," he laughs.

IW says that gameplay concerns for the majority of MW2 players are the overriding reasons for the decision. Zampella downplays the obvious piracy prevention angle (IW has cited numbers of people online playing illegal copies of Modern Warfare up to 60 percent). "The Steam stuff helps with the piracy. I don't know that the matchmaking stuff does," he notes. West takes a shot at the motives behind some of the outrage, noting that there's money to made by selling dedicated servers and adspace on them: "It's a little dubious. Some of the people complaining are complaining with their pocketbook."

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Re: Infinity War on MW2 Servers

Oct 20, 2009, 15:59

^mortis^

People write like that to showcase their portfolio of words with the possibility it will lead to more lucrative work (either from their employer, or on the side). It's a vicious cycle of word-smithing. Hey, it worked for OMM! ^m^

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