In late March we reported that according to Activision, Call of Duty 7 (now known to be Call of Duty: Black Ops) will be getting dedicated servers for PC.

This was great news for PC gamers, as Modern Warfare 2 pretty much proved conclusively that the P2P networking protocol is not good enough to keep  most PC gamers happy. Since then however, neither Activision not Treyarch has said anything about the matter.

Until now that is.

Treyarch (CoD: Black Ops developer) studio head Mark  Lamia has told PCZone Magazine that he thinks “dedicated servers are excellent. I don’t see any reason not to use them unless… well, I just don’t see any reason not to.”

Lamia went on, “It seems people like them and we’re excited about what we’re doing right now. We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides. We’re working very hard to marry those two things, so people can run dedicated servers and also participate in the communal experience the console players get to have, given they’re all on first-party servers.”

So there you have it PC gamers. It looks like Treyarch has learnt from Modern Warfare 2’s biggest mistake, and for now at least, we can look forward to playing the next CoD on dedicated servers.

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