Also predictably, there’s an online petition up asking Infinity Ward to reconsider the decision, which at last count is approaching an impressive 100,000 signatures.
Predictably, this change has PC gamers going nuts, sparking some Modern Warfare of their very own. In theory, the “console” archetype simply distributes the hosting load to the player with the best connection – and should they drop, it smoothly finds another host who can continue the match. and choose which one they want to join – has hardly crippled the popular console versions of the first Modern Warfare. “The team’s focusing on having it very equal on every platform,” said Bowling, and it’s true that lack of a traditional PC server browser – where players are able to sort dedicated third-party servers by gametype/map/players/ping/etc. Speaking about the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 in a podcast, Infinity Ward Community Manager Rob “fourzerotwo” Bowling dropped a bombshell that has the die-hard PC gamers reeling: Not only will Modern Warfare 2 not support user-created mods, but the game will not support dedicated servers for multiplayer – instead, the PC version will use the same peer-to-peer matchmaking formula of its console brethren. Infinity Ward’s decision to remove a traditional dedicated server browser from Modern Warfare 2 has PC gaming fanatics going completely berserk.