New Domain, Same Great Taste

Friday 06 November 2009 at 8:42 pm Time to update your bookmarks, the site has moved to cabal17.com. HasTak, Dark Light, C&C Legacy, and Panzerkampfwagon have also moved, links to the updated URLs can be found on the left in the links section.

Uncommitted

Friday 06 November 2009 at 11:22 am Dedicated servers are part of what makes PC gaming multiplayer great, but that seems to be changing. For those who are unfamiliar with dedicated servers, they are server that host PC games. This is different from Xbox Live and listen servers in that no one is actually playing on the same computer that is hosting. This setup solves many of the issues that plague Xbox Live games, for example, there is no host advantage and there is no 5 second delays in the game because the person who was selected to be the host quit the match. To PC gamers though, these servers became the focus point of communities. A community could run its own server and play how it wanted to, and clans could easily run modified rules or block non-clan members from their matches. Unfortunately it seems that developers no longer care about how much these servers bring to the community surrounding multiplayer PC games. It started when it was announced that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 would not support dedicated servers despite all the previous games doing so. And to say that the PC community took this poorly would be an understatement. (more)