Last month, Treyarch announced that the PC version of their upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops would have support for dedicated servers… a much criticized missing feature from their previous PC port of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2. Don’t worry, PC gamers, dedicated server support is still coming… but Treyarch is Treyarch, and more importantly, Activision is still Activision… so they’re going to try to squeeze money out of it.
According to a recent article at IGN, while Black Ops will still ship with dedicated server support — thus opening the door for private servers, user made maps and mod support — the only way you’ll be able to set one up is if you go through server rental site Gameservers.com… where you’ll have to pay £9.95/month for an 18 player max ranked server, or 66p per player for a month of an unranked server.
This is a far cry from how it’s usually done, where companies make dedicated server software freely available for download… but Activision has proven itself time and again as ruthless capitalists to the core. Of course they’re trying to squeeze money from the tiny pebble that is the dedicate PC gaming community.
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