http://kotaku.com/5805959/the-modern-warfare-3-files-team-perks-no-nukes-new-killstreaksKotaku said:We've also learned, unfortunately, that this latest Call of Duty still won't support dedicated servers, instead relying on the hosted servers found in previous iterations of the game. Dedicated servers were removed from the Modern Warfare games starting with Modern Warfare 2. (Modern Warfare 3 appears to be using DemonWare for player authentication, just like with Call of Duty: Black Ops.)
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I didn't like IW.net. It was a clunky system, which didn't work as advertised. Furthermore, the level of support shown by IW meant that there were serious issues with latency, hackers, glitches, compounded by the poor balancing of the multiplayer component.
Don't get me wrong. I got lots of fun out of MW2, but it was definitely an inferior product to its predecessor and to its competition, BF:BC2.
What does the forum think?