This question has been eating me alive because this whole lobby system in games just plain sucks. It causes individuals to fill their rooms with only their friends until Mr me or you stroll in. That is when you realize you are in JR high school land and my mom sucks, I suck, im gay and oh yes I am a noob.
With a matchmaking system, everyone that gets in the match is random and completely fair for everyone. The developer can then institute a separate lobby system for friends to play together and call each other's sister's whore's and what not. Well this is what Mark Rein VP of Epic games said when asked why they didn't use the Halo 2 match making system in Gears of War.
"It isn't realistic to suggest that we could integrate thousands of lines of 3-year-old Halo2 source code into Gears of War and have working Halo2-style lobby functionality in any reasonable period of time. It would be far more efficient for us to develop it ourselves but unfortunately this is a multiple-man-year effort and, as I indicated above, we're short on the people it would take to do something like this in a timeframe that makes it worthwhile. It certainly isn't for lack of desire, lack of effort to try to find those people, or lack of funds. Trust me - we've been trying to find people to do things like this since long before we completed Gears."
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