Call of Duty: Black Ops Getting Dedicated Servers
So, dedicated servers are back. But are they good enough?
One of the big complaints against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is that it does not allow players to run their own dedicated servers. The complaints appear to have been heard by Treyarch, who is working on Call of Duty: Black Ops – but the solution may not please everyone.
Activision and Treyarch studios have come to an agreement with GameServers.com, making it the exclusive dedicated server provider. This means that anyone can make a dedicated server for Black Ops, as long as it is with GameServers.com.
Ranked servers with an 18 player limit run at $14.95 per month, while unranked servers will cost $0.99 per player spot up to a maximum of 24 players at a time.
Outside of the rented servers from GameServers.com, Treyarch will also be running its own fleet of dedicated servers.
"If players want to run a dedicated Ranked or Unranked server on the PC, they will have to rent one through GameServers," Olin told IGN. "Treyarch will be providing a fleet of 'Day-1 Servers' (through GameServers) which will be up and operational on November 9th.
"Nobody will have to rent a dedicated server through GameServers in order to play the game," says Olin. "But for anybody who wants to run their own server, it will be run from GameServers.com."
Olin added that this partnership adds the advantage of much more effective anti-cheating and hacking moderation.
"If you rent a server, you will still have the ability to Kick, Ban, and Configure it the way you see fit," Olin added. "Of course Ranked servers will have some set configurations that can't be messed with; but you will still have the power to administrate your servers as a customer of GameServers."

Wallhack , aimbot , 10th prestige , no recoil , moded lobbies.
I know for some folks this won't be enough though.
I know for some folks this won't be enough though.
Wallhack , aimbot , 10th prestige , no recoil , moded lobbies.
Agreed, I love how they said VAC was going to do a good job at banning hackers. It seems like there's one or two in every game.
I have never seen someone who wasn't hacking get kicked. Most people will ignore a vote if they don't suspect anything.
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I wonder, what will happen to someone like me who lives in Spain, if I will be forced to play in foreign servers with higher ping because I can't rent CoD servers in my own country.
FYI, Treyarch has stated that the final max player #'s have yet to be finalized for both ranked and unranked servers.
Agreed with the comments on hackers / cheaters / glitchers though. MW2 Fuel map - the rock that every sad SOB runs to hide under with a sniper rifle... why cant IW patch the game to get rid of this
I saw a demo of the new game modes and really liked it, but then i thought about how crappy my mw2 experience was. You can't even play mw2 online w\ pc anymore. Last time i logged in, i was stuck in a horrible hacked server and couldn't get to any other server...
I'm still not blowing more than $30 on this.
i quit playing mw2 because of the hacks.
one 1 time have i had to deal with a hacker in bfbc2 and the admin kicked/banned him.
spectate mode is a must
dude...do you know anything about dedicated servers?
BFBC2 has so many of them that EA isn't running a single one. I don't think we have to worry about the number of servers to play in.
yes, it's total bullshit that they sign an exclusive deal. Battlefield has never done that.