There has been a disturbing trend with online PC games recently, they have all been taking on the more console like multi-player model. This model involves matching players together, then on the fly picking one of the players to be the “host” of the game effectively turning them into an impromptu sever. Modern Warfare 2 was the first PC game I have seen to employ this so that is going to be my focus.

Modern Warfare 2 is a great game but their decision to use this model for multi-player gaming creates many problems vs the traditional server client model. I am going to go over some of them here.