I would not be shocked if government regulation and glowie involvement was the reason behind them making such a push for matchmaking lately. It's a much more centralised system that allows for constant monitoring. Setting up support for dedicated servers is actually far easier than matchmaking especially if you're going to take the lazy route of just making it so people plug in an I.P address to join and that's it.
I remember the good old days of dedicated servers.
I would not be shocked if government regulation and glowie involvement was the reason behind them making such a push for matchmaking lately. It's a much more centralised system that allows for constant monitoring. Setting up support for dedicated servers is actually far easier than matchmaking especially if you're going to take the lazy route of just making it so people plug in an I.P address to join and that's it.