In an effort to calm the post “there will be no dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2 on PC” storm, Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling has made a sizeable post on his blog explaining why fans should be looking forward to the introduction of the new IWNET matchmaking service.
“I recently broke news on a PC community member’s podcast that Modern Warfare 2 would be introducing a completely new back end infrastructure called IWNET that would allow matchmaking for multiplayer games on PC,” said Bowling. “The news, by default, means no more browsing through a Server List for a server with the settings / ping you want among other things, and sent shockwaves through the hardcore PC community, leading to many more questions than answers as to ‘HOW’ this would work, and if it would really be better for the PC community as a whole.”
Bowling continued: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is actually the biggest investment Infinity Ward has ever made into the PC version of our games. It’s also the most feature-rich PC version we’ve ever made. IWNET takes the benefits of dedicated servers and allows them to be utilised and accessed by every player, out of the box, while removing the barrier to entry for players unaware of how to maintain a server on their own.”
In short IWNET will offer matchmaking & smoother gameplay, playlists and private matches, a party system and friends lists, plus cheat/hack free games. Bowling goes into much more detail on his blog.
He concludes: “All in all, IWNET adds a load of new features that the PC version of our games have never had before and allows us an infrastructure to continue to update and improve on the game post-launch.”
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is scheduled for release on November 10 for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
