I’m sure I don’t have to remind everybody about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s peer-to-peer matchmaking controversy, but at least Infinity Ward now realises the whole thing was a big boo-boo – and that’s why they’re going back to dedicated servers this time around.
“I mean, in every aspect of Modern Warfare 3 it was about looking at our player feedback, what they wanted,” Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling told GameSpy.
“More importantly, in every aspect from gameplay to dedicated servers, it was about giving more options, more control to our players, to have the experience that they want to have. So coming out of Modern Warfare 2 it was pretty clear what our PC audience was looking for and what direction they wanted us to go in. The conversation was pretty straight forward because we knew what they wanted and we wanted to execute on that.”
He also attributes previous mistakes to the developer’s first time working with Steam, and perhaps trying too many different things.
“We wanted to unify the experience across every platform but it was always intended to be the first step in a series in what IWNet would become,” he explains. “So we looked at how that performed and regretfully there were a lot of things that it didn’t achieve that we wanted it to achieve.”
Like actually playing the game, I guess.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 deploys worldwide on 8 November 2011.
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