BF BC2 no dedicated servers??

[DeathPanx]

i hope im reading this wrong and if im not that i really hope its just for beta...
also dont know anyone posted about this but i just saw this..

but i think wouldnt our server qualify?


kinda old not too old..

check it
where i saw it

http://www.actionradius.com/jdl/default.asp?qty=1&ID=1336


Long awaited PC Beta of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has finally been confirmed. After the beta ends at end of feburary a multiplayer demo will also be released along with games own release in March. the detailed as posted on official blog are as below:

BETA Details:
Beta Begins/Ends: Jan 28th/Feb 25th
Map Name: Port Valdez
Players: 32
Game Mode: Rush
Environment: Snow
Theme Vehicle and Infantry
Anti-Cheat: Punkbuster
The download of PC beta will be acessable through official beta site and maybe the beta will also be released over Steam also. Those who pre-ordered the game will get the keys to connect online and play the beta. Rest there will be beta keys distributed to various sites etc so as to give them away to users. So, I will update in comments any sites that allow non-American users to get those beta keys.

NO DEDICATED SERVERS:
The beta info also has brough a "BAD" news, as we had expected Dedicated Servers.. may not exist. Even though DICE/EA have confirmed again and again that dedicated servers will be there, but they are now saying that due to security issue they will not release the server files publicly. i.e. it will be distributed only to officially approved servers only (Gameserver hosting services). Its nto sure if this will only be for the beta stage, or for future too. Right now it looks like this strategy will be for actual game too, which is just sad. Ofcourse pirates will get those server files out once it hits other servers, but we wanted OFFICIAL support for those files, not pirated version to host in our local countries.

 

[DeathPanx]

By: Florian Totu, Games Editor
Bad Company 2 Restricts Dedicated-Server Files
DICE says it's in order to "protect the game's integrity on PC"
When Infinity Ward first announced that Modern Warfare 2 wouldn't support dedicated
servers, the PC community was in an uproar. Along with other decisions regarding the
game that were seen by the PC gamers as a stab in the back, it ended up with PC sales
amounting to only three percent of the total. Be it because it actually felt like the PC had
been taken a notch down as far as developer attention went, or because this was just seen
as a golden marketing opportunity, DICE was very vocal about its disapproval of the "no
dedicated servers" concept.
While trying to not lash out at someone else's product as much as it could, the Battlefield
developer made it very clear that its game wouldn't follow the same road as MW2. It
promised that Bad Company 2 would be a proper PC experience, with large servers and
support for dedicated ones. Now, while talking to Eurogamer, Bad Company 2's Producer,
Gordon Van Dyke, has detailed these servers, and the first thing he has revealed is that the
files that the community will need in order to build dedicated servers won't be released, in
an attempt to "protect the game's integrity on PC."
As such, the only way to host a dedicated server for BC2 will be to rent one from DICE's
authorized hosts. According to Van Dyke, "This does not earn DICE a profit. But we will see
where the game goes and support it post launch." As for the hosts themselves, these have
been picked in "all major regions of the world," so, unless you're in one of them, don't
expect to have a perfect, lag-less BC2 multiplayer experience.
Truth be told, this isn't that much of a difference from the previous workings of other
Battlefield games. While DICE did offer the choice to host the server in one's own living
room, very few players did, and servers were still rented to ensure a constant, quality
connection. The problem here would be more of an ideological one. DICE promised to fully
support the PC community, but it has already announced that mod tools won't be released
for the game, and now it has even restricted the server freedom, in a world where anarchy
rules.
The restricted files are bound to be leaked sooner rather than later, and DICE should know
this, so we have to wonder just what it is trying to achieve by restricting them in the first
place. While it's still far from Modern Warfare 2, BC2 seems to slowly but surely move in the
same general direction.
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[Soldier4Real]

There will be dedicated servers you just can't rent any for the Beta. The only ones available for the Beta will be the ones provided by EA through RSPs (Ranked Server Providers)

 

[sixer9682]

I imagine they're attempting to strengthen their security of the game to avoid as many exploits as possible.