IW = open mouth insert foot.


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Here is a quote from IW on why they don't have dedicated server

"Cheat / Hack Free Games: 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. Or relying on the server admin of the server to constantly be monitoring, banning, and policing it. Modern Warfare 2 on PC allows us to control the quality of the game much more than ever before as well as utilizing the VAC (Valve-Anti-Cheat) system to keep games clean of hackers and cheaters."

Here's in game video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MdSwgKtSYg

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The problem with VAC is it does delayed bannings (think microsoft banning 360's) so those with hacks get away with it for a week or two and then VAC comes in and does a big ban wave. They say they do it so that hackers dont know which program is actually causing bans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Ch...m_.26_rationale

All this does is confirm that IW will probably skip a PC version altogether next time :/

Pc hackers are contributing quite a bit to PC gaming decline, imo.

Hacking is a cross platform issue. Not just PC.

Here's a new link for the video http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/27045

like we didn't see this coming.. IW are being suck morons this time around.

I wanta see the video though, so if anyone gets a new working link. Post it.

Just posted a working link.. It doesn't work in FF for me so I had to view in IE.

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/27045

Did you see the comment in the video though?

It was something like (sorry I saw the video hours ago) "Crap man that guys hacking, someone get an admin...oh wait, ok someone start a kickvote please....oh ****"

Yeah this is exactly what I knew would happen. No dedicated servers (which means no mods and no admins) + no vote kicking + VAC = hacker hell. I actually hope hacking becomes rampant on MW2 because IW deserves it.

MW2 = most overhyped game of 2009. It truly is the new Halo, if you know what I mean. :p

Stupid console gamers... you've damned us all! :D

No, really, I am not too happy about the consoles. How can you be in favor of 9v9 multiplayer when you could have had 32v32!? Only a console gamer would willingly accept something like that.

I am going to go play Dragon Age now. **** Infinity Ward.

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