id software's next big gaming release will be the FPS racing game hybrid Rage but according to recent comments by id's technological genius John Carmack it appears unlikely players will be able to use dedicated servers for the game.

Carmack told Variety:



His closing remark refers to the recent, and highly controversial, decision by Infinity Ward to not allow dedicated servers for Modern Warfare 2. That decision fuelled a backlash which saw 183,000 signatures on an online petition. Modern Warfare 2 will instead use listen servers via a matchmaking system powered by IWNET. It remains to be seen if id have something similar planned.

Apparently Carmack feels that dedicated servers are an antiquated part of gaming's past and should not by default be considered the way of the future. With id software's most recent batch of games failing to live up to the incredible success of its older titles it will be interesting to see if id themselves are suited for the modern era of online gaming.

Carmack is a legend within PC gaming as the man behind the Commander Keen series, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the Doom series and the Quake series. Design elements aside his programming work on the engines of his FPS games has always been the best within the industry and left many companies clamoring to licence the technology for their own games.