
Re: battlefield bad company 2
The way I've understood it that only certain "authorized" companies/organizations are allowed to run dedicated servers (people not falling into that authorized category can't host). All servers are locked into a ranked non-moddable configuration, so you can only customize the server to a limited extent. I've tried to become a authorized, but EA/Dice make this process difficult so at this point there isn't much I can do.
The official site seems to contradict itself and there isn't a whole lot of real factual information out there. It is unfortunate that EA/Dice are doing it this way.