“We have not been ignoring your complaints,” Community Manager Robert Bowling made in a press release. “We have actually had dedicated servers ready to be released since last November at the game’s launch.”
“The goal of IW.net was to provide a safe, reliable gaming environment that provided a smooth and cheat free environment. We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone for failing to deliver on any of these goals.”
You may have seen the beginning of Dan’s rant on the creation and use of IWNet on the site not so long ago. I guess this means he’s never going to finish this series, because Activision and Infinity Ward have announced that they’re adding dedicated servers after seeing so many petitions, forum threads…and articles. Robert Bowling from Infinity Ward ‘tweeted’ recently to shed a bit more light on when this functionality would be added. In typical fashion, however, the following binary code was given as opposed to a straight forward answer: “010000010111000001110010011010010110110000100000011001100110111101101111011011000111001100100001″.
This development makes me happy. Not just because dedicated servers are a very good idea, but because because it’s good to see developers experimenting. There is going to be a point, and there has been points already, in which something can become stale. Not necessarily the case with something like server structure and alike, but regardless, if developers aren’t willing to experiment with what they have and change the formula somewhat, then the job of keeping up a website like this is going to be mind numbingly boring, at a point.
