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Common Misconceptions About Servers
There's No Latency / No Host Advantage
Whilst no player will have a ping of zero to the server (unlike when hosting), latency will still exist nevertheless, and the xbox with the lowest ping to the server will have the biggest advantage. Depending on where the data centers are located, this advantage may well still be a severe one. Thus servers will not eliminate the problem, but merely reduce the severity.
There's No Lag
Servers can be more reliable, this is true, but this depends on a great many things. Servers can lag, disconnect, and crash, just like any other host. Packets can get lost en route. The data center could have problems. The ISP might have problems. There is still plenty of potential for lag to occur.
"Bungie/Microsoft have lots of money to pay for servers"
Yes and no. Halo 2 was the most played game on Xbox Live. The sheer amount of servers needed would be astronomical. The hardware alone would cost millions (and severely eat into Microsoft/Bungie's coffers). That's not including administration, upkeep, updates, backups, bandwidth, and so on.
Microsoft (which ultimately finances Bungie) does have a lot of cash, but it's home entertainment division is currently in the red to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. No company is going to want to spend money needlessly, especially when a division is in a lot of debt, and the performance gains from servers are pretty negligible and very expensive.
"It solves cheating"
I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't. A few networking based cheats may be harder or impossible, but it doesn't remove all cheating. Secondary Standby, Modding, Dummying, Superbouncing, can or could all be done off host, and new cheats that can be performed off host may well be discovered.
Source http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=8455638
[Edited on 08.01.2009 9:39 PM PDT]