Comments on: Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling Explains How No Dedicated Server is Not Crazy

By: yaniv israel

yaniv israel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:39:47 +0000

LISTEN! TO ME INFINITY WARD! I HAVE BUY THE GAME MW2!!!!!!!!! FOR PC IT WORKED FINE (hh the best way that iwnet can do not much so..)
AND! NOW WHEN IM DOING FIND GAME ITS DOING TO ME CONNECTING TO IWNET FOR HOURRRRRRRRRR! HELP DAMN IT

By: N B

N B — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:05:22 +0000

cheat free my arse. I’ve just played a game against someone (I think he was called bugsy or something) who was using an aim bot. He racked up about 120 kills in a not very long game.

secondly – this game seriously needs a higher player limit (i.e. as it was with dedicated servers)

thirdly – I have experienced anything but smoother game play. I consistently “cannot connect to host” when trying to find games, or it “cannot migrate the host” whilst in lobby mode. Also, (I don’t know if this is the game or my internet) I find that after approx 1 game, I game massive amounts of lag, even exiting and rejoining another game. though it does seem to be fine once I restart the game.

What I don’t understand is why they didn’t just simply have a quick game section based upon the IWnet current system, and then have a server list alongside it. They could have made peace with their ridiculous argument for IWnet and pleased PC gamers.

I can only think that whoever made this decision had very little experience with pc online gaming.

By: GamerDude

GamerDude — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:44:22 +0000

And By the way. Ive been hosting gaming servers for a good 10 years. I have many friends who know how to do dedicated servers. We are not as dumb as you think.

By: GamerDude

GamerDude — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:43:08 +0000

Matchmaking & Smoother Gameplay —–

Matchmaking fails, I want to join my own server. I had smoother gameplay in dedicated servers too, none of this changing hosts bs.

Playlists and Private Matches —–

We had private matches in CoD4 too. Its called Dedicated servers with a password.

Party System and Friendslist —–

Ive seen many games with Dedicated servers that have a Friendlist, and we dont need a crappy Party system with dedicated servers because we can join the servers our friends are in.

Cheat / Hack Free Games —–

TOTAL BS. Ive seen MANY people with hacks, and the most common one, the level 70, 10 prestige. AND WE CANT EVEN KICK THEM. This is total BS. Your server system fails, face the truth.

By: hobbitkiller

hobbitkiller — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:21:26 +0000

this is fucking stupid, now i have to wait 4 hours to let steam update the game… thanks a load rob bowling, must be great being an ass hole….

By: Grimus

Grimus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:42:14 +0000

I said to my room mate who plays MW on the 360 why I’m not getting MW2 and he replied:

“Whats a server?”

This is why I’m not gettting MW2. MY PC IS NOT A GOD DAMN CONSOLE!

By: Grimus

Grimus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:25:58 +0000

HA! Fourtwozero blog has blocked adding comments, it shows that IFW are just turning their backs on the community…

It utterly perplexes me how any one at IFW thought that getting rid of support for dedicated servers was a good idea. Ok sure, what they have set up seems like a good idea if it works as well as they say it will, but removing a feature of a game that started on the PC and had the support of the PC community from the start was a fucking stupid idea. Not to mention the loss for dedicated server companies and the modding community. Sorry to get aggressive but the CEO or whoever allowed this decision to pass actually needs to be shot, or at the very least fire their arse.

Personally I couldn’t give two shits about any of this console crap matchmaking, I spent a lot of money and time on my pc, unlike console owners to gain the benefits of PC games because 9 times out of 10 they are better than the console version for various reasons that we all know of. It feels like IFW have just stuck their finger up at the PC community, because they COULD resolve this issue and make thousands of people happy. If they do then I will gladly spend my money on it, until then the internet is a wonderful place…and I’ll be sticking to MW1 for online play.

By: Grimus

Grimus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:10:45 +0000

ST3: “By the way, alot of that content in mw2 (ie weapons and perks) are taken from mods created by modders for free..”

Source?

By: Kewl

Kewl — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:47:10 +0000

JUST DONT BUY THE GAME IT WILL BE JUST LIKE LEFT 4 DEAD!!!!!!

By: Zlyvex

Zlyvex — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:02:30 +0000

“All in all, IWNET adds a load of new features that the PC version of our games have never had before” -Bowling

Uhhh, Bowling… there is a good reason why pc games haven’t had those features before. It’s because this is not what pc gamers want. You guys have made a huge mistake. Attempting to change the culture of pc gaming is not the way to go. And, your essentially taking away money from loads of companies that offer server support and that is not what this country needs right now.