User blog comment:Capt. Miller/Dedicated Servers Coming to BOIII on PC/@comment-50.48.170.12-20150430144119/@comment-1905698-20150501111220

As far as my knowledge goes, it's more difficult to reliably do dedicated servers for consoles, since you can't simply host your own and have others play on it (whether you're just one dude playing video games for fun with friends, or a company doing it for PR or other business).

With CoD, there's millions(?) of people wanting to play, and if you rely on servers, it's either:
 * the developer hosts enough of them so there's no congestion (a la KF2 launch), which costs a shit-ton
 * they allow renting them for a fee to mitigate the costs to keep them up, which can be seen as EA-esque microtransaction fest where people with a credit card can tell you how to play the game (e.g. "no killing admins or ban")