I miss when I could buy an FPS and just have it. Perhaps people have been trained to expect a game like this to shut down quickly, which might lead to a vicious cycle where they stop playing it and paying into it, expecting their money to disappear and that they could have spent that time getting better at a game that's going to last.
I know this is an old geezer comment but I miss FPS games where you could configure and host your own server. To this day I can still boot and find Unreal Tournament (1999) servers with active lobbies.
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
I miss when I could buy an FPS and just have it. Perhaps people have been trained to expect a game like this to shut down quickly, which might lead to a vicious cycle where they stop playing it and paying into it, expecting their money to disappear and that they could have spent that time getting better at a game that's going to last.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 1y
I know this is an old geezer comment but I miss FPS games where you could configure and host your own server. To this day I can still boot and find Unreal Tournament (1999) servers with active lobbies.
helloharu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I wish we could go back to this. It would certainly increase the longevity of some games.
Prox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Does Halo Infinite let players do this now? Or are you "only" able to run your own game/lobby on a dedicated cloud server?
themizarkshow@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
It's a fun game but an ultra competitive market. Either show you're in it for the long haul or most players will never give you a chance.