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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=Section1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The distribution has nothing to do with the actual game engine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There are lots of games on steam with dedicated server support.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Even their own games do support that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> John Kennington [mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 06 November 2009 15:47<br><b>To:</b> Call of Duty server admin list.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cod] Online Retailers Refusing To Sell Modern Warfare 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Actually, by reading between the lines, it does. By not selling the game, they do two things: 1) they will not support steam, a rival company, and 2) they say that distribution through steam is not acceptable. That means, off handedly, that they support dedicated servers.<br><br>John<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Martin H <<a href="mailto:rubb3r.side.up@gmail.com">rubb3r.side.up@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Doesnt really have anything to do with MW2 though. Just that the retailers dont want to sell something that will then act as direct competition. Pity, really. i was looking forward to it being because of the game ^^<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2009/11/6 Bong-Master <<a href="mailto:bong-master@thesilverdagger.co.uk" target="_blank">bong-master@thesilverdagger.co.uk</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>yes very intresting<br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>From: "escapedturkey" <<a href="mailto:escapedturkey@escapedturkey.com" target="_blank">escapedturkey@escapedturkey.com</a>><br>Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 6:26 AM<br>To: "Call of Duty server admin list." <<a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" target="_blank">cod@icculus.org</a>><br>Subject: [cod] Online Retailers Refusing To Sell Modern Warfare 2<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://kotaku.com/5398259/online-retailer-refuses-to-sell-modern-warfare-2" target="_blank">http://kotaku.com/5398259/online-retailer-refuses-to-sell-modern-warfare-2</a><br><br>Interesting ...<br>_______________________________________________<br>cod mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" target="_blank">cod@icculus.org</a><br><a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod" target="_blank">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod</a> <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>cod mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" target="_blank">cod@icculus.org</a><br><a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod" target="_blank">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>cod mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a><br><a href="http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod" target="_blank">http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/cod</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. -- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>