Treyarch: We Never Wavered on Dedicated Servers for Black Ops

[The Last Parade]

why is infinity ward getting the blame, it's activision that caused this dedicated server fiasco last year anyway.

I have no love lost for Activision, but how does this logic make sense? Activision is Treyarch's parent, too. If Acti had strong-armed IW (its most profitable studio next to Blizzard) into no dedicated servers, then it could certainly do the same to Treyarch.

This just makes it seem more likely that MW2 was IW's decision.

Simply put, activision saw the sheer carnage that was caused last year, any business would want to avoid that amount of negative coverage. Theres a lot of evidence on the amount of meddling that activision did to IW from trying to get CoD4 to abandon servers and even be set in WW2 (which it wasn't thank god) to holding back paychecks and firing the leads. Activision as a publisher is the most anti developer company I've seen since Apple's App store