[cod] No bins for Cod: Black Ops

Thu Sep 2 08:09:16 EDT 2010

Apparently they did talk out of their ass. Josh Peckler disputed their
claim on Twitter ("There are no public server files... @tgn is full of
it... "). There's more here:
http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20996

Cheers,
Einar

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Richard GrosJean
<richard.grosjean at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope TGN didn't get bad info.
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Hannu Kumpeli <hannu at shadowstyle.nl> wrote:
>>
>> http://twitter.com/TGN/status/22765906679
>>
>> > My thoughts exactly Steve.
>> >
>> > I think also they seriously underestimate the brand loyalty of gamers,
>> > who like to have the choice to rent from the same provider they trust,
>> > and have been doing for X years. They don't want to be told who to
>> > rent from.
>> >
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>> > On 2 Sep 2010, at 10:50, Steven Hartland wrote:
>> >
>> > > Because of course one provider can possibly keep up with demand and
>> > > have the spread of localised hosting needed to serve the entire
>> > > community with top quality servers.
>> > >
>> > > Where do they get the people who make these decisions, seriously? No
>> > > dedi's for MW2 and now a single provider for BO might as well not
>> > > have a dedicated server :(
>> > >
>> > >     Regards
>> > >     Steve
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: Bong
>> > > To: Call of Duty server admin list.
>> > > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:44 AM
>> > > Subject: Re: [cod] No bins for Cod: Black Ops
>> > >
>> > > Well if this is the case this will be another game that i will not
>> > > be getting.
>> > > This was taken from
>> > > http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/9/2/activision-allows-dedicated-servers-with-cod-black-ops-but-theree28099s-a-catch.aspx
>> > >
>> > > This leads us to today’s announcement - Call of Duty: Black Ops will
>> > > definitely have dedicated servers. That is, as long as you get them
>> > > from gameservers.com. We can compare that with Henry Ford's
>> > > legendary statements that customers can have a car in any color as
>> > > long as it’s black. The statement goes,
>> > >
>> > >   "GAMESERVERS.COM SELECTED AS THE EXCLUSIVE DEDICATED SERVER
>> > > PROVIDER FOR Call of Duty: BLACK OPS. GameServers.com, in an
>> > > exclusive contract with Activision and Treyarch studios, announces
>> > > that they will offer dedicated server rentals for the upcoming Call
>> > > of Duty: Black Ops release scheduled for November 9, 2010. We are
>> > > extremely excited about this unprecedented relationship with
>> > > Activision to offer dedicated servers exclusively for Black Ops”,
>> > > says David Aninowsky, CEO of GameServers.com. “We are placing a
>> > > great amount of pressure on ourselves to ensure that we exceed any
>> > > and all expectations."
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > From: Andrej Parovel
>> > > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:01 AM
>> > > To: Call of Duty server admin list.
>> > > Subject: [cod] No bins for Cod: Black Ops
>> > >
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > I saw on a website that there will be no bins for Call of Duty:
>> > > Black Ops, so the only hoster for Dedicated servers will be
>> > > GameServers.com
>> > >
>> > > "Dedicated servers will be rented from GameServers only. Unranked
>> > > and ranked. Fully customisable."
>> > >
>> > > Is these true? They are crazy from Activision and Treyarch.
>> > > --
>> > > Andrej
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>> > > aparovel at gmail.com
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