Call of Duty: Black Ops PC Gets Dedicated Servers

BAD NEWS for all true MPs Gamers out there again we all got shafted.


Warcore Gaming | CoD Black Ops limited Game Servers!

Bad News for all Gamers again these Giant Monopoly Corp Companies are really foolish and don't understand gamers requirements for Dedicated Servers and a choice of Hosts! As with CoD MW2 they made a huge mess and really alienated the majority of the MPs gaming community causing them to lose potentially multi - millions in revenue, this resulted in very poor Servers on Valve Steam and pre - matched games. Now they have done it again this time not only adding insult to injury by limiting everybody to 1 Games Provider... pfff talk about a Monopoly!
Call of Duty : Black Ops Announcement!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:
Anthony Quon
2400 Main Street Extension
Suite 12
Sayreville, NJ 08872
Phone: 973-849-0532

GAMESERVERS.COM SELECTED AS THE EXCLUSIVE DEDICATED SERVER PROVIDER FOR CALL OF DUTY : BLACK OPS


(Sayreville, NJ, September 2, 2010) GameServers.com, in an exclusive contract with Activision and Treyarch studios, announces that they will offer dedicated server rentals for the upcoming Call of Duty : Black Ops release scheduled for November 9, 2010.

"We are extremely excited about this unprecedented relationship with Activision to offer dedicated servers exclusively for Black Ops", says David Aninowsky, CEO of GameServers.com. "We are placing a great amount of pressure on ourselves to ensure that we exceed any and all expectations."

GameServers.com has expanded its global locations to 18 major cities around the globe outfitted with the latest in server and network technology specifically for the Black Ops title.

"We are thrilled at the opportunity to provide high performance dedicated Call of Duty : Black Ops servers to the world", says Anthony Quon, COO of GameServers.com. "Over the course of the past several months, we have been working rigorously with our partners to ensure that our global network infrastructure can withstand the mounting popularity of Black Ops."

Additional information regarding dedicated server including pre-orders can be found on www.warcore.co.uk

Much as I hate to say it, I think I prefer the occasional fail host in MW2 to any server admins or mods. I like the consistency of unmodded servers, where I can accomplish what I came for: shooting the @#$^ out of people. Mods tend to lag down servers and they end up spiking worse than John Doe in his mom's basement. And admins? Get some restraint. I used to find punkbuster screenshots to prove anyone was hacking before I kicked them. Now, I can't play more than 2 maps without getting banned. Down with dedicated servers! RABBLE!

I wish people would stop trying to fix what isn't broke. I don't want your communal experience.

Nice. IWs decision not to do it seems like it will continue to bite them.. They really dropped the ball and every other game seems like it's going to play off of it.

What bugged me about MW2's server debacle was that IW probably wanted to do dedicated server support but some little junior blue-suit at Acti insisted on ditching it to save time and money. But, the spineless punks just offloaded the news to IW to pass along t the PC fanbase,..

All I'm hearing is: "Yadda yadda, BC2 kicked MW2's ass, and we at Treyarch are so awesome to recognize WHY and will fix it."

OK, so maybe Activision (I'm assuming it's Activision calling the shots here) has seen the advantages of dedicated servers and has decided to bring them back. Kudos.

I see where people like Carmack are coming from in that there are things for which Dedicated Servers are not ideal (persistent statistics, for example) but there's ways to fix that (TF2 handles it nicely)

Hell maybe they actually did see a drop in sales from COD4 to COD6 and decided to give dedicated servers back in COD7

As someone who followed the franchise from day one, the replay value for each release has dropped consistently after United Offensive. I did play and enjoy Modern Warfare for a while as well as World at War, but Activision told me what they were all about after Modern Warfare 2 and they will no longer receive any support from me. It's sad when someone prefers EA over Activision...

Anyone else looking forward to the next MoH release?

ahahhahaha

Seriously? People are STILL going to complain about this news? I'm ecstatic that IW's stupid and greedy little stunt hasn't set a trend everyone in the industry is lining up to follow. I don't know why DICE is such a saint now, even they're being high-handed with BFBC2 by not actually releasing the server to the public.

Best wishes to Treyarch this time around. I've never bought any of their games, but I'm willing to vote with my dollar in this case.

Good to see Treyarch acknowledging that people like creating mods, and that they can be good for the community. Hopefully they truly are "reconciling" the two, and not just saying "hmm, mods or persistent stats; which would get us more money hats"?

I also think this is refreshing to see, as opposed to Robert Bowling's marketspeak-laden blog post announcing IWNet last year. It's nice to see Activision-owned developers embracing the openness of the PC platform, instead of taking potshots at it and whining about loss of creative control or being "not enough like the console multiplayer experience".

Still, will they enforce unique IDs, as in CoD:WaW? Will they force the use of GFWL or Steamworks? Will the dedicated servers be community-administered and open to reconfigure? How good will the mod support or SDKs be? If there is no SDK, will they allow the community to create one?

Too little too late

I would gather that it's going to be rented dedicated servers

Is there a good reason to not have matchmaking with "pure" servers (such as with source games) to get the 'consistent experience', as well as having moddable dedicated servers? Choice here is the key for me.

Other than, of course, "significantly more development time" or an increased risk of cheating (partially offset by server admins). I guess moddable servers could not use the experience system.

I don't believe it until it actually releases with dedicated servers.

Great news :)