Over the past several Call of Duty releases, PC gamers have been left feeling disappointed by the lack of dedicated servers. Modern Warfare 3 had dedicated servers, sure, but they were limited to unranked games only, which doesn’t quite cut it for some.
In Black Ops 2 , that’s set to change.
Cesar Stastny, Treyarch’s director of technology, confirmed in a tweet over the weekend that Black Ops 2 will have dedicated server support, and this time around ranked will be supported. “Confirmed: Ranked Dedicated Servers for ?#BlackOps2,” Stastny wrote.
For some reason or another, Activision has been a bit off-and-on when it comes to dedicated server support for Call of Duty games on the PC platform. The original Black Ops supported dedicated servers, but only from one provider. Modern Warfare 2 , arguably the best title to date, shipped with no dedicated server support at all.
With Modern Warfare 2 , Activision and Infinity Ward wanted to push its so-called “IWNet” multiplayer system on the PC, rather than going the dedicated server route. Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling had this to say in IWNet’s defense at the time:
“The biggest benefit of using IWnet by far is the fact that you don’t have to worry about joining a server full of aim-bots, wallhacks, or cheaters,” Bowling writes. “Or relying on the server admin of the server to constantly be monitoring, banning, and policing it.”
Is the lack of dedicated servers in a PC title, such as Black Ops 2 , a dealbreaker for you?
