[cod] Call of Duty 7

[James Landi]

Correct Activision owns both Treyarch and IW, however they seem to do 
what ever they want.... or shall I say IW can do anything they want 
because they are now the big money makers.  I would assume that they 
either would not want Treyarch to have any code they have worked on 
without push from Act.

There is a known rift between both companies and Activision seems to 
care less.  I would say Activision needs to bitch slap IW into 
compliance however their their golden egg right now and will be allowed 
to do anything they want.

It will be interesting to see where Treyarch goes, but a word of warning.

If there is no details or information about dedicated servers then take 
that as "There will be none".  I'm sure most of you remember my email 
before MW2 was released.  It was based on my trip out to the Xbox event 
(the only PC guy in the room).  I warned all GSPs in regards to the lack 
of PC info for MW2..... and we all know how that turned out.

Jim Landi
Rudedog
FPSadmin.com
Microsoft MVP, Games for Windows 2009. 2010


On 2/8/10 10:21 AM, Mathis wrote:
> TreyArch is a division of Activision...
>
> English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treyarch
> German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treyarch
>
>
> Am 08.02.2010 16:10, schrieb James Landi:
>> The only thing we have on our side, is the friction between Treyarch 
>> and IW. I'm hoping Treyarch will want to try and keep their PC 
>> community happy thus we'll see dedicated servers like World at War. I 
>> can't see them using something called IWnet... however we may see 
>> TREYnet. Then again there was issues with IW giving Treyarch updated 
>> code before shipping which I would guess did not make it easy for 
>> Treyarch. But now after a number of patches, CoDWW is a good solid game.
>>
>> As for being a flop on the PC, they said it sold more then their past 
>> CoD titles on the PC and at times just over 100K clients playing (or 
>> waiting to be connected). It will be interesting to see how much they 
>> charge the PC customer for their DLC.
>>
>> Jim Landi
>> Rudedog
>> FPSadmin.com
>> Microsoft MVP, Games for Windows 2009. 2010
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/8/10 9:49 AM, Tyson wrote:
>>>
>>> It was a best seller on Console. It was a bomb on PC.
>>>
>>> Of the 10 billion dollars worth they sold, only 3% of that was PC. A 
>>> lousy 3 million dollars is the reason they will exclude PC on the 
>>> next version altogether. They knew this would happen that’s why they 
>>> did what they did. Now they can cut us out of the COD franchise and 
>>> focus on the locked in time hardware of consoles that are easier to 
>>> program for because they are all the same hardware. And increase the 
>>> cost of DLC for them at the same time. PC will in my opinion not see 
>>> another COD game.
>>>
>>> EA/Dice will continue the route of charging GSP a license fee for 
>>> every sold slot on all new games driving the price higher for Ranked 
>>> and Unranked servers. They started it with BF2142 and are continuing 
>>> it with BFBC2. That’s why there are only 20+/- GSP’s worldwide for 
>>> BFBC2.
>>>
>>> And the little Guys that frequent this list the most are locked out 
>>> because they are small potatoes compared to those GSP’s with Beta 
>>> servers up right now.
>>>
>>> Tyson
>>>
>>> *From:* John Kennington [mailto:jwkennington at gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* Monday, February 08, 2010 7:23 AM
>>> *To:* Call of Duty server admin list.
>>> *Subject:* Re: [cod] Call of Duty 7
>>>
>>> I seriously doubt that IW/ATVI will shift back to dedicated servers. 
>>> What do they care? They can charge what they want and force PC users 
>>> to purchase content. Although CoDMW2 is a best seller, it has 
>>> rapidly become very boring. They really don't care about "modding" 
>>> or "supporting the community." Why should they? It costs them money. 
>>> Yeah, we can all weep and cry about it, but they know that the 
>>> console crowd will support them.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Midnight <midowns at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:midowns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually MS is starting to dominate the enterprise with the 
>>> SharePoint platform, google docs so far is a non-starter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Caleb Stephens wrote:
>>>
>>> microsoft is already dying a slow death from the google docs 
>>> transformation, xbox is next.
>>>
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