Since when was having dedicated servers on PC a feature?

It's like saying sound in games is a feature.

It's sad how much CoD has made this kind of announcement, since the recent CoD games are literally the ONLY PC first-person shooters without proper dedicated server support (black ops is no exception as gameservers.com has complete control of all the servers and must be rented instead of just letting users use their own networks for servers). One goddamn PC game ditches dedicated server support and suddenly they're a bullet-point feature for all the competitors instead of an industry standard.

It's success on the consoles massively hinges on whether it lags or not. There's a growing apathy amongst console gamers who are getting tired of AAA titles coming out with terrible matchmaking and ridiculous lag.
I really hope this game implements a decent regional matchmaking system.. and has good host selection (unlike Black Ops & Crysis 2). If it does then I'm all over it and it will raise it above it's competitors.

I have to hope that p2p is getting closer to its demise.

Well done. And now you have secured my purchase :) This was the only lingering issue for me at the moment.

Oh and in the words of the mighty Bond: PAAAAAAAAAINT!

GAY....its only the PC version

Um, on the PC? When would that not be the norm?

how is this news worthy, does it make any sense to develop an online only game, and not have dedicated servers?, lol

I think that every major multiplayer focused game should have a dedicated server... I hope they don't close it after a year (like EA tends to do... >_>)

WTF? Why do consoles keep getting f*cked? Gamers want dedicated servers on every platform!

I had high hopes that this would have dedicated servers on console because the console games that the developer opt for dedicated srevers has much higher quality of gameplay. This is a game I have been excited about for a while now just like I was excited for Crysis2 multiplayer on PS3 before it came out. After playing about 8 days of multiplayer on Crysis 2 I sold my copy all because of the terrible p2p lag. But if you were the host on Crysis 2 you had quite an advantage over everyone else.