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wfz on 30 August 2011
mchaza said:
wfz said:
Why are Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 both capped at 18 players then? I always figured it was due to the fact that the game was already pushing the consoles too far already (the 360, at least). Was Activision merely "lazy" up until now?


they use dedicated servers, but P2P matchmaking, P2P is where the Host is someones console modem. This causes an array of issues from host discontentions, to long wait times between games, and horrible contections. While many games, pc and even consoles used dedicated servers which are servers located in server farm or someone home and offer high upload  rates allowing more players at a solid connection to your average internet users modem. 

 

So this is going to be for PC dedicated servers. As this on console P2P would be horrible belong belief and a complete lag fest like there 18 player mode. 


Why can't the consoles run dedicated servers like PC can?



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mantlepiecek on 30 August 2011
wfz said:
mchaza said:
wfz said:
Why are Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 both capped at 18 players then? I always figured it was due to the fact that the game was already pushing the consoles too far already (the 360, at least). Was Activision merely "lazy" up until now?


they use dedicated servers, but P2P matchmaking, P2P is where the Host is someones console modem. This causes an array of issues from host discontentions, to long wait times between games, and horrible contections. While many games, pc and even consoles used dedicated servers which are servers located in server farm or someone home and offer high upload  rates allowing more players at a solid connection to your average internet users modem. 

 

So this is going to be for PC dedicated servers. As this on console P2P would be horrible belong belief and a complete lag fest like there 18 player mode. 


Why can't the consoles run dedicated servers like PC can?

They can. Its just that some developers think the console audience doesn't care for it. The PC audience was deprived of dedicated servers at the launch of MW2 and there was an outcry.

They basically know that the majority of their console audience doesn't know much about dedicated servers since they don't game on PCs.



GuiltySpartan77 on 30 August 2011

im pretty sure they said already that MW3 would support dedicated servers. Unless they were only talking about the PC version?



mchaza on 30 August 2011
KylieDog said:
wfz said:
mchaza said:
wfz said:
Why are Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 both capped at 18 players then? I always figured it was due to the fact that the game was already pushing the consoles too far already (the 360, at least). Was Activision merely "lazy" up until now?


they use dedicated servers, but P2P matchmaking, P2P is where the Host is someones console modem. This causes an array of issues from host discontentions, to long wait times between games, and horrible contections. While many games, pc and even consoles used dedicated servers which are servers located in server farm or someone home and offer high upload  rates allowing more players at a solid connection to your average internet users modem. 

 

So this is going to be for PC dedicated servers. As this on console P2P would be horrible belong belief and a complete lag fest like there 18 player mode. 


Why can't the consoles run dedicated servers like PC can?

 

mchaza is wrong, it is matchmaking servers CoD uses and the actual games are P2P, hence the limitations.  There is nothing stopping the console CoD games from having dedicated servers except for Activisions greed.  The console Battlefield games, Resistance 1 and 2, Killzone 2 and 3, MAG and pretty much all EA sports games have dedicated servers on consoles, probably a bunch of other games too.


let me correct my oringal post as i meant to of wrote "They DONT use Dedciated Servers but P2P". Also i said that ocnsole games can have dedicated servers as there are console games that do, take BFBC or MAG for example. But Activsion dont do this as P2P is very cheap over dedicated servers so there are many limiations to how many players you can have at the moment, unless you have high speed uploads which not many have. So other than my sight missing of a word that you could of picked up i was meant to say Dont, everything i mention was correct. 



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