Recently, Infinity Ward (IW) made an announcment that they will be hosting all the server and there will be no dedicated servers. Ok this is good and bad its great that there will always be pure servers running. All the servers will be updated when patches come out. It will also help players find people around their skill level. Ok all of this is great but here is my biggest complaint. Running a few servers over the years, servers are the backbones of a community. Its allows you to play with your friends. Ok I'm sure IW will have something like this in their own setup. The other reason is playing on a server with certain rules that you like. Lastly the mods and custom maps.

I can see why this is a problem with dedicated servers I just don't see why it can't be handled like every other multiplayer game out today. Have a PURE setting or make ranked servers. Both pure and ranked server require certain rules be applied making all the servers basically be the same. Hopefully IW can create a system that allows their customers to "make" a server on their network that isn't some crappy listening server running on some person crappy cable connection.

In a multiplayer game its the servers that keep it alive longer. Since Infinity Ward wants to sell DLC for MW2 its very important to make sure the game is alive long enough for people to actually buy the DLC. Finally with dedicated servers IW doesn't have to pay for all the hosting. The players pay for it. This is what I call a win-win for both gamers and IW. 

Will I buy Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 now? Probably I liked the first game. It does break some plans of actually hosting a server for Pure Gamer though but it may not be that bad. I going to wait and see.

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