Community servers would save PVP gaming for me. The community part was fun too. You start to recognize people. I remember a MoH:Allied Assault server I played on, there was a guy that would chill in a certain tower and snipe. Once you played there a lot you just knew he was there. He was quiet but would banter a bit if you managed to get up into his tower and kill him. All in fun. Players that whined too much or were just generally annoying were removed and banned. It didn't take anything more than "you aren't any fun to have around." After a while you'd recognize the different players, because everyone came back to the same servers.
I'd run a server or multiple servers today if there was a game that supported it I liked. I don't think it will come back unless the right indie game comes around to do it, with people that are really worried about gameplay stats along with the devs needing more money grabs, it's just not going to happen.
Yeah, I loved community servers. Even met some people in real life from that server. Was something like a 2 hour drive and we spend an evening drinking & grilling.
Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.
That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.
Community servers would save PVP gaming for me. The community part was fun too. You start to recognize people. I remember a MoH:Allied Assault server I played on, there was a guy that would chill in a certain tower and snipe. Once you played there a lot you just knew he was there. He was quiet but would banter a bit if you managed to get up into his tower and kill him. All in fun. Players that whined too much or were just generally annoying were removed and banned. It didn't take anything more than "you aren't any fun to have around." After a while you'd recognize the different players, because everyone came back to the same servers.
I'd run a server or multiple servers today if there was a game that supported it I liked. I don't think it will come back unless the right indie game comes around to do it, with people that are really worried about gameplay stats along with the devs needing more money grabs, it's just not going to happen.
Yeah, I loved community servers. Even met some people in real life from that server. Was something like a 2 hour drive and we spend an evening drinking & grilling.
He doesn't. He has Bluestorm level of IQ.
Battlebit supports a server browser, but have you seen their terms of service: https://agreements.battlebit.cloud/GameServerTos.pdf
Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.
That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.