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Let's also say that Bungie has all the money in the world to do this. One more problem with dedicated servers, is that they have a definite limit. Once every server is maxed out on players (especially at launch/high traffic times), no more people can play online.
Also, once a game reaches its end of service life, the servers would have to be shut down since the game is no longer bringing in a suitable profit. Meaning no more online play ever again for that game. Just look at EA. The only reason Halo 2 matchmaking still exists is because the matchmaking servers are relatively inexpensive to maintain compared to dedicated ones.
[Edited on 11.06.2009 5:08 PM PST]