User blog comment:Emilios1310/Josh Olin confirms exclusive server provider/@comment-1142365-20100916170903

i don't exactly know what all this hullabaloo about dedicated servers is about. here you can see that you actually need to pay for dedicated servers. well, matchmaking was free, i'd rather have matchmaking. it works fine on consoles, so it will work fine on PC. treyarch only made dedicated servers available because of a moaning and whining community who probably don't know about the drawbacks of dedicated servers.

for example, on cod4 it seems to me that half the servers i join have some sort of restriction, whether it be grenade launchers, juggernaut, or no smgs except the MP5 and P90, which actually makes it shit for players who want to have the maximum amount of freedom when playing the game. i also for one never found 50 players on shipment fun at all. i think it's a rubbish idea and i much prefer the servers with 20-30 players. not the absurd 50 player limit on some of them.

so yeah, matchmaking. not as shit as you all regard it to be