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Try asking about server browsers because thats what it looks like you're after.
The game seems to have dedicated servers but you want the ability to choose server rather than the matchmaking.
dedicated servers are exactly what the name says. its not peer to peer is it?
who owns them or rents them is irrelevant. Just because you cant create/rent or even browse them doesnt mean they arent dedicated servers.
that said your definition even still fits what Im saying. you have misunderstood what they are. Lots of people seem to not realise what they have been asking for.
I can't see Activision funding thousands of servers when the population is so miniscule. P2P is the easiest and cheapest way for them. They may implement them when the game goes standalone though if a decent population is present.
We had all this BS with the likes of Advanced Warfare - they promised dedicated servers off the bat but then these became 'hybrid' servers and then those became 'hybrid dedis and a mix of P2P'. Christ; we don't even have an anti-cheat on the PC version so what hope have we got of dedi's anyway...
Nothing angers Activision more than the fact that CoD4 is still populated.. They don't want ANYONE to be able to play CoD4 anymore, they want you to have to buy Infinite war to get their remaster... Yet thanks to dedicated servers, there's jack squat they can do about it..
Also consider how they intentionally sabotaged Black Ops servers to make people hate them by
1) Making "ranked" the ONLY way you could level up/unlock stuff.. Everyone plays CoD to level up/unlock stuff, so server owners were required to make their servers ranked
2) There was no way for admins to disable certain weapons/perks (like they could in CoD4) or even add mods (like they could in CoD4) - So the only way to enforce rules was to use kicking/banning..
3) Using kick/ban to enforce rules IS EXACTLY WHAT TREYARCH TOLD ADMINS TO DO!!!!!! It wasn't until right before Black Ops 2 release when Treyarch flipped their stance and stated that "they never wanted admins kicking to enforce rules" despite having told admins to do exactly that!
And ever since then any "dedicated servers" have been a joke.. Even Modern Warfare 3's "unranked community servers" were severely sabotaged by being off by default, having create a class be hidden deep in matchmaking sub menu's, breaking them with every update, not having server logs, and a host of other major problems...
They don't want loyal customers who will build strong communities and play the game for thousands of hours... They want impulse buyers who board the hype train and pre-order "because it's CoD" or "because the pre-order bonus looks cool" then quit after a couple hundred hours.. only to board the hype train again in 10 months and pre-order the next yearly CoD...
They want each CoD title to be effectively "dead" after it's 1 year is up and the "new" CoD is out...
At roughly the same time as this was happening new netcode with so called intelligent matchmaking algorithms with on the fly lag comphensation was introduced by the time MW3 came along, obviously for us (PC Gamers) this was a downgrade , but for the companies involved in this new development it was far more cost effective and made commercial sense.
I will add in the real world this system in my own opinion is flawed , I play mostly at night and I'm matched with players who have far better latency than myself.. and the lag comphensation doesn't seem to work lol , the dedicated server is in fact only used in the context of matchmaking, once the host is picked it is then open to abuse , ie lag switching etc.
CoD changed it's DNA at that time and became a fully fledged console game. When you think back to the days when we could boot up the game and join our favourite servers and have a lag free experience, it does not take rocket science to see why so many old school gamers turned on CoD like a rabid dog, that is when and why the hate began... not because the game is not good but because Activision and CoD became superstars overnight on console and PC gamers felt neglected.
Activision should have listened to the cries from PC gamers @ that time and developed a seperate strategy to please everyone , If they had maintained full dedicated server support for PC gamers I honestly believe CoD would still be the most popular FPS on PC @ 2016.
I could go on and on but most of the PC community already know most of what I have written, I personally still like the game and enjoy playing against Bots , but it would really be nice to see CoD (Activision IW & Treyarch) make a meaningful gesture and provide us with a dedi package, I live in hope.
Looking forward to playing the New game though.. probably against bots lol :P