Sad these old games are just broken for all time after Nintendo shuts down the service. New Leaf is still the best Animal Crossing game available until online is removed.
Blizzard still has their original Diablo 2 servers up and running, hell they might even have their Diablo 1 servers up and running. That's the sort of shit I like to see.
towards a model where players can host shit themselves
What, you mean like players were doing for years before the advent of "queue-cringed matchmaking"? Never going to happen since it makes it harder for developers to sell overpriced cosmetics.
It occurs to me that most gamers aren't old enough to remember being able to download dedicated server software, released officially by the developers, for use on your own LAN or even made open to the internet.
Sad these old games are just broken for all time after Nintendo shuts down the service. New Leaf is still the best Animal Crossing game available until online is removed.
Blizzard still has their original Diablo 2 servers up and running, hell they might even have their Diablo 1 servers up and running. That's the sort of shit I like to see.
All the more reason to push the industry away from online, or at least towards a model where players can host shit themselves.
Or maybe force consoles back to couch co-op only.
What, you mean like players were doing for years before the advent of "queue-cringed matchmaking"? Never going to happen since it makes it harder for developers to sell overpriced cosmetics.
It occurs to me that most gamers aren't old enough to remember being able to download dedicated server software, released officially by the developers, for use on your own LAN or even made open to the internet.
It will be as foreign to them as actual freedom.