Eh, I played CoD for a long time in middle and high school The community loved to complain about the whole lack of dedicated hosting thing but I rarely had bad

Eh, I played CoD for a long time in middle and high school The community loved to complain about the whole lack of dedicated hosting thing but I rarely had bad experiences with it. Plus, CoD 4 and CoD WaW both had dedicated servers but are mentioned in this slide deck, so it sounds like they'd be using this middleware regardless. At CoD scale I'm sure the ability to not rely on first party hosted servers saved enough money to justify the occasional service interruptions, and this system is better for groups of players that might be close to each other but far from an official data center.