Bowling Defends Modern Warfare 2's IWNet Service News

Roughly four days have passed since IWNet's zero hour - when the matchmaking service for Modern Warfare 2 on PC was revealed by Infinity Ward's sounding board, Robert Bowling - and now he's spoken out on his blog in defence of the service.

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is actually the biggest investment Infinity Ward has ever made into the PC version of our games," insisted Bowling in the post. "It's also the most feature-rich PC version we've ever made. IWNET takes the benefits of dedicated servers and allows them to be utilised and accessed by every player, out of the box, while removing the barrier to entry for players unaware of how to maintain a server on their own."

Bullet pointed improvements to the service, according to Bowling, are the ability to make the online game more accessible with a matchmaking service while still allowing clans to host private matches, thereby retaining the benefits of a dedicated server.

There's also a new party system and friends list under IWNet, which "makes setting up scrims or games with friends easier and hassle free." One final benefit of IWNet is that it allows Infinity Ward to police the servers so that admins don't have to do it themselves.

"Modern Warfare 2 on PC allows us to control the quality of the game much more than ever before as well as utilizing the VAC (Valve-Anti-Cheat) system to keep games clean of hackers and cheaters," said Bowling.

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