http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/call-of-duty-6/1045903p1.htmlFor now, PC gamers are able to host ranked, dedicated servers.MTV Multiplayer blog is reporting that modders have unlocked the ability to host dedicated servers in the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. The trick was accomplished by coders unlocking the developer console, allowing them to created ranked, "legal" dedicated servers.According to a video on Destructoid, modders have already busied themselves, customizing the game's rule-sets to include options like infinite ammo, increased rate of fire, speed and gravity tweaks, and just about anything that you'd expect in an FPS mod. Infinity Ward and Activision have yet to issue a statement regarding the modders.This news comes after weeks of boycotts and controversy for Infinity Ward's decision to axe dedicated servers in the PC version.Tyler says: Mess with the bull, you get the horns. There's nothing a few dedicated (er, maybe obsessed) gamers can't hack. The specifics of software hacking are so foreign to me that in my mind these folks could commandeer satellites orbiting our planet if they wanted. Of course, there would have to be something like a StarCraft II beta locked inside said satellite for gamers to be interested.Jokes aside, I love the irony of this story. Infinity Ward's IWNet was supposed to circumvent the exact thing that happened here. How will it respond? What repercussions could the hackers face, if any? I'm sure we'll find out soon, as the lack of dedicated servers in MW2 is quickly becoming the biggest PC gaming news story of 2009.
Of course the saying goes, no publicity is bad publicity... it could be the most elaborate mind F&*k in IW history, where they ride the press good or bad and actually poaching hackers or putting up the hacks themselves to fuel the press machine... yuh never know it could happen.... Once ppl get hooked from the 'hacked' version with all the support, they pull the rug out disable it all with a patch and then introduce dedicated servers and all the goodies 'exhibited' by the press, but say you KNOW its good and you've played it, now just PAY and you'll get what you want... would be an interesting twist.
wow just wow...i frakking buy the thing Saturday and all of a sudden i could run it freezorz...BS!
Its a very interesting catch-22 situation for IW: enabling dedicated servers and mod tools and the like mightsee an explosion in sales, but it ALSO might just see an explosion of cracked servers and even more piracy, but continuing as is with IW.net is inspiring lots of PC gamers forgo purchasing it anyway, now that its been hacked all to hell.I wouldn't want to be on the IW team that makes that decision. If it all goes south after DS is enabled thenIW reasoning for omission in the first place is then justified.Or they could just ignore what's happening here and focus on console sales/support....and Rage, I beta testing the online MP since last night. (with fake Steam acct of course)
* shakes head at W1nTry * '...no real grounds' eh. Whatever.
Quote from: Arcman on November 17, 2009, 05:11:29 PM* shakes head at W1nTry * '...no real grounds' eh. Whatever.Yup, it's like you walk into your favourite bakery to buy ur usual coconut bake, and they only have whole wheat. You don't like it, but then you don't have to buy it. You can go to another bakery and get ur bake.If on the other hand, you buy the wholewheat and realize it have fungus, then you can go back and get ur money back or complain and send health inspectors, but if yuh doh buy, yuh never know they have fungus yuh cyah complain.On the LAST hand, yuh DOH buy de ppl wholewheat but yuh SPRANG it off a truck, eat the fungus and want to complain XDHow's that for an analogy?
It's making me hungry!
i hate bake.
