{"id":39844,"date":"2012-06-18T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39844"},"modified":"2012-06-18T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:48:51","slug":"black-ops-2-pc-is-getting-dedicated-servers-says-treyarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39844-black-ops-2-pc-is-getting-dedicated-servers-says-treyarch","title":{"rendered":"Black Ops II PC is getting dedicated servers says Treyarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who prefer to play games with those funny clackity key pads and electronical rodents, you will be pleased to know that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will also support your ranked dedicated server thingies.<\/p>\n<p>Although the developer had previously been somewhat non-committal on the subject, <a title=\"Treyarch\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20477-Treyarch\">Treyarch<\/a> director of technology Cesar Stastny confirmed the news on <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The first Black Ops also supported dedicated servers, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 controversially did not, leading many PC gamers to rage on the internet about how developer Infinity Ward hated everybody and wanted them to be miserable.<\/p>\n<p>The next sequel, Modern Warfare 3, did include support for dedicated servers, but by then, many <a title=\"PC gamers\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC gamers<\/a> refused to have anything to do with the game and the whole franchise because <a title=\"Infinity Ward\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20473-Infinity-Ward\">Infinity Ward<\/a> had a shocking history of hating everybody and wanting them to be miserable.<\/p>\n<p>Happy days are here again.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2012\/06\/17\/black-ops-ii-getting-dedicated-pc-servers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">GameInformer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39625-black-ops-ii-demoed-by-jimmy-fallon.html\">Black Ops II demoed by Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Black Ops 2 the \u201cmost provocative, shocking, engaging\u201d CoD game ever\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39547-black-ops-2-the-most-provocative-shocking-engaging-cod-game-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Ops 2 the \u201cmost provocative, shocking, engaging\u201d CoD game ever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39027-black-ops-ii-gameplay-is-refreshing-but-familiar.html\">Black Ops II gameplay is refreshing but familiar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38096-treyarch-says-futuristic-black-ops-2-is-something-weve-talked-about-for-a-while.html\">Treyarch says futuristic Black Ops 2 is \u201csomething we\u2019ve talked about for a while\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"E3 2012: Games that didn\u2019t show up\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/39610-e3-2012-games-that-didnt-show-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">E3 2012: Games that didn\u2019t show up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"E3 2012: Overlooked games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/39577-e3-2012-overlooked-games.html\" target=\"_blank\">E3 2012: Overlooked games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38855-ex-infinity-warders-and-activision-hug-it-out-with-money.html\">Ex-Infinity Warders and Activision hug it out, with money<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Black Ops 2\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/tag\/black-ops-2\"><strong>All Black Ops 2 news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we want? Dedicated servers! When do we want them? Now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":37121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[587,1904,3954,23,4754,21,2219,2362],"class_list":["post-39844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-activision","tag-black-ops-2","tag-black-ops-ii","tag-call-of-duty","tag-call-of-duty-black-ops-ii","tag-headline","tag-megarom","tag-treyarch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39853,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39844\/revisions\/39853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}