: I'm not sure if this was intentional, but you say *the* hosting service.
: GameRanger has nothing to do with what we've been working on. Bungie are
: the ones running Halo's replacement services.

: GameRanger is also purely client based from what I understand. IE, it can't
: support dedicated servers, which is the life blood of the game these days.

So Bungie is going to host Halo CE on their dedicated servers? If that's the case then that's incredibly cool on their part for not abandoning the community. That literally costs them money and they're not even responsible for that franchise anymore.