<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">My thoughts exactly Steve.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div id="MailContainerBody" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" name="Compose message area" canvastabstop="true" style="padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 15px; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">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 :(</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> Regards </font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> Steve</font></div><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="bong-master@thesilverdagger.co.uk" href="mailto:bong-master@thesilverdagger.co.uk">Bong</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="cod@icculus.org" href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">Call of Duty server admin list.</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:44 AM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cod] No bins for Cod: Black Ops</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Calibri">Well if this is the case this will be another game that i will not be getting.</font></div><div><font face="Calibri">This was taken from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/9/2/activision-allows-dedicated-servers-with-cod-black-ops-but-theree28099s-a-catch.aspx"><font title="http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/9/2/activision-allows-dedicated-servers-with-cod-black-ops-but-theree28099s-a-catch.aspx CTRL + Click to follow link" face="Times New Roman">http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/9/2/activision-allows-dedicated-servers-with-cod-black-ops-but-theree28099s-a-catch.aspx</font></a></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal medium/normal 'Times New Roman'; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial; text-align: left; ">This leads us to today’s announcement -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="http://forums.gameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=40527 CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://forums.gameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=40527" target="_blank">Call of Duty: Black Ops will definitely have dedicated servers</a>. That is, as long as you get them from gameservers.com. We can compare that with Henry Ford's legendary statements that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="Henry Ford's Legendary Quotes on Wikiquote" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Ford" target="_blank">customers can have a car in any color as long as it’s black</a>. The statement goes,<br><br><span style="font-style: italic; "> "GAMESERVERS.COM SELECTED AS THE EXCLUSIVE DEDICATED SERVER PROVIDER FOR<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="kLink" id="KonaLink0" href="wlmailhtml:{C6519670-6C31-4634-9865-35C8C1B61371}mid://00000105/#" target="undefined" style="border-right-color: transparent; border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; padding-right: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; display: inline !important; padding-left: 0px !important; right: 0px; left: 0px; background-image: none !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-transform: none !important; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: initial; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: initial; font-family: verdana; position: static; top: 0px; background-color: transparent !important; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline !important; outline-style: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; "><font color="#000064" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; font-family: Arial; position: static; "><span class="kLink" style="border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; padding-right: 0px !important; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; display: inline !important; padding-left: 0px !important; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; float: none !important; background-image: none; padding-bottom: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: initial; border-left-color: initial; width: auto !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; padding-top: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; font-family: Arial; position: static; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; ">Call<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="kLink" style="border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; padding-right: 0px !important; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; display: inline !important; padding-left: 0px !important; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; float: none !important; background-image: none; padding-bottom: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: initial; border-left-color: initial; width: auto !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; padding-top: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; font-family: Arial; position: static; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; ">of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="kLink" style="border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; padding-right: 0px !important; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; display: inline !important; padding-left: 0px !important; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; float: none !important; background-image: none; padding-bottom: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: initial; border-left-color: initial; width: auto !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; padding-top: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; font-family: Arial; position: static; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; ">Duty</span></font></a>: 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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="kLink" id="KonaLink2" href="wlmailhtml:{C6519670-6C31-4634-9865-35C8C1B61371}mid://00000105/#" target="undefined" style="border-right-color: transparent; border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; padding-right: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; display: inline !important; padding-left: 0px !important; right: 0px; left: 0px; background-image: none !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-transform: none !important; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: initial; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: initial; font-family: verdana; position: static; top: 0px; background-color: transparent !important; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline !important; outline-style: none; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; "><font color="#000064" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; font-family: Arial; position: static; "><span class="kLink" style="border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; padding-right: 0px !important; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; display: inline !important; padding-left: 0px !important; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; float: none !important; background-image: none; padding-bottom: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: initial; border-left-color: initial; width: auto !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 100) !important; padding-top: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 100); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-family: Arial; position: static; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; ">servers</span></font><span class="preLoadWrap" id="preLoadWrap2" style="position: relative; "></span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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."</span><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal medium/normal 'Times New Roman'; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; widows: 2; orphans: 2; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial; text-align: left; "> </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal Tahoma; "><div><br></div><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="aparovel@gmail.com" href="mailto:aparovel@gmail.com">Andrej Parovel</a></div><div><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:01 AM</div><div><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="cod@icculus.org" href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">Call of Duty server admin list.</a></div><div><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[cod] No bins for Cod: Black Ops</div></div></div><div><br></div>Hello,<br><br>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<br><br><i>"Dedicated servers will be rented from GameServers only. Unranked and ranked. Fully customisable."</i><br><br>Is these true? They are crazy from Activision and Treyarch.<br><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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