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Evil Avatar - News Items: Probably No Dedicated Servers for RAGE
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Total Gaming Network: [PC] Good Possibility of No Dedicated Servers for id's Rage
| BOOO #id ! http://bit.ly/23Izxs Support dedicated servers please. Also did variety scoop this? Wierd. Maybe not #kotaku had it. 11 days ago |
| Wow, I'm glad I'm not an id fan or I'd be pissed off by this news. http://bit.ly/1Ya25w #id #DumbassMoves #CompaniesWhoScrewUpLikeIW 15 days ago |
| ID's Rage Unlikely to Use Dedicated Servers http://bit.ly/1Ya25w | Hey PC gamers are not console gamers, we won't put up with this trend! 16 days ago |
Probably No Dedicated Servers for RAGE
Evil Avatar - News Items —
... Oh dear, something else has happened that will make PC gamers curse life itself. The single greatest computer mind of our generation, John Carmack (aka Rocketman), has told Variety that RAGE probably won't be dealing with that dedicated server nonsense. ...
John Carmack: No Dedicated Servers for Rage
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... he believed that dedicated servers were “something of a remnant” of the early days of PC gaming and that he realizes that affinity many PC gamers have with such systems. He says that he is glad that Rage will not be leading the charge, and simply following in step of the many new and upcoming titles that have no plans to support dedicated servers. “The great thing is we won’t have to be a pioneer on that,” he says. “We’ll see how it works out for everyone else.” Source: Variety
[PC] Good Possibility of No Dedicated Servers for id's Rage
Total Gaming Network —
... id Software's John Carmack has stated that as of right now it does not look like the multiplayer component to Rage will use dedicated servers. ...
No RAGE Dedicated Server?
Blue's News —
Variety has some disappointing news for PC gamers, revealing that that id Software's upcoming RAGE will likely not include dedicated server support. After ...
No dedicated servers for Rage multiplayer?
Big Download Blog —
... It's looking like one of the biggest PC game developers, id Software, could decide (and we emphasize "could") not to offer dedicated servers for online multiplayer in their next game Rage. In an article on Variety, id Software' John Carmack is quoted as saying, ...
id: Probably No Dedicated Servers for Rage [Rage]
Kotaku —
... But he's glad "we won't have to be a pioneer on that. We'll see how it works out for everyone else." News that Infinity Ward was dropping dedicated server support in favor of everyone playing online through its new matchmaking service IWNet touched, off, predictably, a petition-fueled backlash from a PC community that had long used dedicated servers to play Call of Duty games. Carmack, Variety said, indicated the felt the servers are a relic of PC gaming's early days. Dedicated Servers and Rage - News You Probably Don't Want to Hear [Variety] ...
No dedicated servers for Rage either
Gaming Nexus —
... NEWS - Now this one surprises me. John Carmack, one of the founding fathers of online FPS gaming and one that probably started the dedicated server rage with Quake, will NOT be enabling dedicated server support for Rage. Is it that hard to have both support in there? It's been like that forever so why this sudden shift to only doing matchmaking and listen servers on the PC side? ...
id Software's RAGE is not supporting dedicated servers
Destructoid —
... "It's not cast in stone yet, but at this point no, we don't think we will have dedicated servers," confesses id's John Carmack. He added that he's glad Infinity Ward did this first so that his studio "won't have to be a pioneer on that. We'll see how it works out for everyone else." ...
John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers for Rage
The Escapist : Latest News —
... of the "dumbing down" of videogaming in favor of people who get confused when they're confronted with more buttons than they have fingers on one hand. But now it sounds like Infinity Ward won't be alone in forsaking the mouse-and-keyboard set: No less a luminary than John Carmack himself said recently that id would probably follow the same path with Rage , its newest project. "It's not cast in stone yet, but at this point no, we don't think we will have dedicated servers," he told Variety . He also sounded thankful that Infinity Ward is blazing this particular trail, so he ...
John Carmack: No Dedicated Servers for Rage
MMOG Chronicles —
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The PC gamer diehards must be freaking out. This is just more proof that PC gaming is dead and developers don’t care about the PC.
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id says Rage probably won’t have dedicated servers, awaits the wrath of the internet
That VideoGame Blog —
... of them. Because of this, maybe id Software co-founder John Carmack could’ve picked a better time to say, “It’s not cast in stone yet, but at this point no, we don’t think we will have dedicated servers,” when referring to the PC version of Rage, which is set to drop sometime in 2010. ...



