Activision announces MW3 will have dedicated servers on PC

Well, here's something I never expected to see. Either Activision (and/or Infinity Ward) has lightened up a bit, or it's begun to consider Battlefield 3 a serious threat to its bottom-line, because the company has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will support dedicated servers on the PC.

Let's give credit where credit's due. Activision is to be applauded for this change, because not having dedicated servers was a major problem with Modern Warfare 2. It made it difficult to hook up with friends, and if the host dropped, then the entire game stalled for a few moments. Not ideal for a competitive game.

Black Ops improved things quite a bit, but even the dedicated server implementation there is clunky. Around the game's launch, it took about a week or two before I could reliably connect to the same server each time, in order to hook up with my usual group of friends. Here's to hoping that Modern Warfare 3 handles dedicated servers better, and with less restriction that Black Ops faced (being forced into a certain provider).

As is likely obvious in my opening paragraph, I'm not confident that this change was made because the PC gamer is valued. Activision has not often proved itself to be a company that cares much about what gamers want, as long as it can reap the rewards of huge revenue numbers. It wouldn't surprise me if Battlefield 3, which also has dedicated servers, along with having what seems to be a much higher hype level at the moment, played a big part in this change.

Either way, this is one change that's great for PC gamers, and at this point, that's all that matters.

Source - TechGage

[(TKC)-o]T3[o]

hahah not sure if this is them trying to offer something to compete with BF3 or they have finally admitted to themselves that their networking SUCKED in MW2.

Doesn't matter.. fail game is fail and BF3 is the GOTY.

too late MW3... now they're looking desperate.. flip flopping around

+1.

Slim chance BF3 will beat MW3 for SALES at this point. Based on the fact that:

A) CoD sells on name alone and the band wagon leaps on
B) MW2's biggest issues were networking and hackers both of which are solved with servers
C) CoD is a WORLD easier for a "Lone wolf" style game-play
D) CoD still holds dominance on consoles.
E) BF3 doesn't touch Steam (A LOT of people are against this and even not buying the game entirely)

They might come close due to:
A) BF3's IMPRESSIVE GRAPHICS
B) BF3's IMMERSIVE MAPS
C) Everything else that makes BF>CoD for GAMEPLAY.
I hope I don't get flamed for showing SALES Vs. Gameplay

Slim chance BF3 will beat MW3 for SALES at this point. Based on the fact that:

A) CoD sells on name alone and the band wagon leaps on
B) MW2's biggest issues were networking and hackers both of which are solved with servers
C) CoD is a WORLD easier for a "Lone wolf" style game-play
D) CoD still holds dominance on consoles.
E) BF3 doesn't touch Steam (A LOT of people are against this and even not buying the game entirely)

They might come close due to:
A) BF3's IMPRESSIVE GRAPHICS
B) BF3's IMMERSIVE MAPS
C) Everything else that makes BF>CoD for GAMEPLAY.
I hope I don't get flamed for showing SALES Vs. Gameplay

Nah man your right its mainly the stupids out there that cant manage team play that rely on solo play that makes COD so popular but unfortanutely when COD Monkeys come to BF they quickly start calling hacks because they dont understand why a squad can stomp them compared to lone wolf killing everyone.

Meh, to little to late. Still not looking to buy the game.

Slim chance BF3 will beat MW3 for SALES at this point. Based on the fact that:

A) CoD sells on name alone and the band wagon leaps on
B) MW2's biggest issues were networking and hackers both of which are solved with servers
C) CoD is a WORLD easier for a "Lone wolf" style game-play
D) CoD still holds dominance on consoles.
E) BF3 doesn't touch Steam (A LOT of people are against this and even not buying the game entirely)

They might come close due to:
A) BF3's IMPRESSIVE GRAPHICS
B) BF3's IMMERSIVE MAPS
C) Everything else that makes BF>CoD for GAMEPLAY.
I hope I don't get flamed for showing SALES Vs. Gameplay

I completely agree with you. I don't think BF3 will beat CoD on sales, but it WILL be a better game, period.

[(TKC)-o]T3[o]

Nope.. won't beat it in sales unless word of mouth gets out of control. But that's just the loss of MW monkeys. They will be playing an inferior game.

Really makes me wonder if at LAST second they decide OH OH LETS DO DEDI'S THAT WILL MAKE IT WIN!!! How great their server support will be.... Cause I mean we all know how great it was when they had a year to plan around servers with Lag Ops riiiight? /sarcasm.