Comments on: DICE Explains Bad Company 2 Server Rental Details

By: Sam aersixb9 Strelitz

Sam aersixb9 Strelitz — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:20:38 +0000

I’m willing to spend $10 to ban cheaters now…although i wish playing with hack free gamers (you can tell the diff if you don’t cheat)

is a key part of games bein fun, plus bc2 is the only game that works great now in 3d vision lovin it on my newish pc was playin it laggy on old pc not so good. the physics in 3d is good. tank shellin at range with a topgunner is awesome, i love the multiplayer, plus i been callin in mortar strikes into key advancement poitns of cover, lol then they scatter and we push em back to their spawn with the chutes ;p u can get momentum like in war3, you get 2x their ‘units’ in the ‘range’ and ‘group’ , and you kill them all and take almost no dmg in both there and here, lol, i was talkin to myself while playin in 3d, tryin to grab an objective but there was too many , and i was like there’s too many and each one is hard to kill

then some fag starts shootin me at spawn thru the walls after i accuse him , and i guess no admins or he was one ?

so i guess i gotta pay more to make it cheat free…maybe i can get the cash back by makin it popular and then makin slot reservations be bid based or something

By: Largo

Largo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:51:47 +0000

@Torinir:
Wrong. Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 had “RANKED” servers which were available via authorized rentals only. Public Dedicated server files were available but these files were locked form being made Ranked servers.

By: Exelost

Exelost — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:06:52 +0000

Why can others have their own dedicated ranked server ?
Im from Argentina, we cant play because DICE don’t alow others dedicated server ISP?
Cmon.

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:38:28 +0000

It’s good to see that DICE will be offering people to run their own dedicated servers. I think the backlash over MW2 certainly said something (regardless of how successful it still was). People want control — it’s good that they’ll get it, regardless what providers are satisfying it.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:02:51 +0000

As a member of a large EU clan, we have our own dedicated server which hosts several games (COD4, Left4Dead, Left4Dead2 co op) our forums, our TS server and an FPS server, along with a multiplay server for Left4Dead2 Vs. We have no problem renting another server from one of Dice’s authorised hosts for BC2. When BF came out we rented one from Multiplay purely due to pricing against other providers.

Renting from Dice’s authorised hosts or another provider is 6 of one and a half dozen of another, in other words pretty much the same.

I agree with Torinor, it should help keep the hackers and stat padders down.

But you should realise that we could have easily ended up with another MW2 type direct port to PC, unbalanced, P2P network beta, self hosted, small map game.
IMHO Dice saying who we can rent of and who we can’t is a very small price to pay so we can get back to the full blown multiplayer large map goodness we all have been missing.