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People need to educate themselves on the nature of servers. They really don't solve any problems.
1. A server is massively expensive. Let alone having multiple servers (to counteract that having one won't solve half of the problems P2P hosting has) would be ridiculous to support. Who is going to pay for this? Why would they throw money at servers when they don't solve many of the problems P2P hosting has that people -blam!- and moan about?
2. When servers crash, everybody goes offline. No one is playing or will be able to play until they get the servers back up. If one person lags out in Halo, even if they are hosting a game, only one person lags out and the game still goes on. Not to mention, that one person can usually get right back online. Many times if a server crashes people aren't going to be able to get back online for hours or perhaps days depending on the problem.
3. Server maintenance. I'm sure everyone will be oh so happy that we are playing on servers when they shut them down regularly to perform maintenance so crashes (that will happen anyways) won't happen.
4. Hosting games on a dedicated server doesn't even fix a lot of the problems people have with the current system. People who live far away from where the server is located are going to still be at a disadvantage compared to people who are closer to the server than them. The funny thing is, people who are closest to the host of games already receive that kind of advantage over people. Information still takes time to travel, the only thing servers really eliminate is one person getting a host advantage.
5. As time goes on, less and less people will play the game. It happens with every game. Why would they keep massively expensive servers up as the population goes down? What are they going to do, shut down a server to save money and then completely -blam!- over people who live far away from any other server.
[Edited on 09.28.2009 8:54 AM PDT]