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Dedicated servers for Aliens vs. Predator look unlikely
Kevin Spiess - Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | 11:13AM (PT) 0 Favourites (0)


First Modern Warfare 2 and now even more bad news

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PC gamers have had cause to be somewhat distraught over recent news that Modern Warfare 2 will not have dedicated servers for PC gamers for online play. And now, in a third blow, it looks like Rebellion Development's Aliens vs. Predator will not feature dedicated servers either. 

Though this has not been confirmed officially, in a recent chat with CVG, AvP producer David Brickley awkwardly danced around questions given to him on the topic, indicating that he is probably withholding some bad news. Asked three separate direct times on the subject on whether AvP would have dedicated servers for PC gamers, the game's producer answered the questions with waffles and babbles, going on about DirectX11, the game's strong PC heritage (Rebellion made a PC AvP game in 1999), and how servers were really expensive and how they want PC gamers to have a great time with the game. And then he capped things off by saying things haven't been determined yet.

All in all, it looks like he could have just said 'no' from the get-go. But we'll have to wait for the official determination. 

Source: CVG

Section: PC Games

  • 1 thumbs!
    Northern49 since May 2005 | Oct 27, 09
    THIS IS BULLSHIT.
  • 0 thumbs!
    MajorJohnson | Oct 27, 09
    Battlefield2 WILL have dedi's. This has been confirmed via Dice.
  • 2 thumbs!
    bruceleethree since Nov 2005 | Oct 27, 09
    this is laughable, theyre trying to kill PC gaming and they think we're stupid.
  • -1 thumbs!
    Spark since Mar 2009 | Oct 28, 09
    I prefer consoles way over PC anyhow
  • 0 thumbs!
    Northern49 since May 2005 | Oct 28, 09
    quote Spark
    I prefer consoles way over PC anyhow
    That's because you're not tech savvy and are destined to be one of those old people who will say "kids these days. Back in my day, we had to put the CD in the system ourselves! Not use this hippy-gippy robot arms to do it for us. I bet kids these days don't even change their video settings manually! Bah! We had it rough".

    Whatever Spark. You're just a gamer.
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