I assume you've read the news that's been plastered all over every gaming site for the last couple of weeks: Infinity Ward announced it would not release a dedicated server for Modern Warfare 2. On the heels of that, John Carmack made a similar announcement for Rage.
People who cut their teeth on console multiplayer are having a hard time understanding why the loss of dedicated servers is such a big deal. After all, consoles get along just fine without them, right? Even some PC users are having trouble grasping just what we're in for, and they wrongly imagine that PC multiplayer is going to start looking like console multiplayer. It isn't. It can't.
The Escapist : It's the End of the War as We Know It