Quote Originally Posted by rossmum View Post
Where's the need for it in a shooter like CoD though? You can still invite friends to play or hold comps in games which already use matchmaking.
But you can't see the ping of the group to determine how much it will lag, you can't kick someone, at least without majority vote (even though I don't know any MM games that let you do that), you have to debate about the next map instead of having the server admin make a map list to make the game go smooth, you have to add everyone you want to play with to your friends list instead of just joining the server that they are all in, servers allow you to have a larger community playing, with people hopping in and out to make/fill spaces, letting you play with more people then the max server size, dedicated servers add some permanence to the game, etc.

There are many reasons why dedicated servers are ideal over matchmaking.