That isn't hope. It's a way of not cutting your own throat when a knife is held against it.
Infinity Ward obviously has no intention of bringing dedicated servers to the game. If they did, they would have included it as an alternative to matchmaking from the start. If they rethought their stupidity, they would have swallowed their pride and stated right there that they were adding dedicated server back. But why?
If they said they were adding back dedicated servers, everyone will shut up. Hell, it's what they want. But if they said that and they didn't deliver, then they'd be caught in a very very bad lie. If they said they were never going to put dedicated servers in, they would have just put salt on the wound and lost even those people buying the game hoping it might be added in the future, since all hope would be lost. So, they said the equivalent of "maybe". The complaining can't get any worse than it is now, and they are still able to screw over their customers!
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