The best thing GTA Online did was finally allow private lobbies. I had stopped playing by then. Sadly, you still need at least 2 in it for them to exist.
Before then you had to use your OS to suspend the GTA Online executable and then unsuspend it to get your own temporarily private lobby until it cycled back into the available ones. From what I remember, the busy-ness of the servers dictated how fast it would be cycled back into the list. Anywhere from 15 minutes at peak times to a few hours on slow days.
Agreed. We should still be able to have player run servers for games. There can be an official page for servers, and an unofficial server page for the player run ones. I mean put a warning that the game content may change and all that, just like they did way back in Medal of Honor Allied Assault. Where people can run custom game rulesets.
I also agree with the other part. You should just be able to jump in and play, with friends or just alone if you felt like it. I haven't had the game installed in about 3 years, so I don't know what it's like now. Also calling it a lobby is my mistake. It's technically more set up like the xbox 360 used to be. Get friends together and jump into a game together.
I assume you can just friend only or lock the pre game setup ahead of time now. But I have no interest in installing GTA V just to see if that's the case.
The best thing GTA Online did was finally allow private lobbies. I had stopped playing by then. Sadly, you still need at least 2 in it for them to exist.
Before then you had to use your OS to suspend the GTA Online executable and then unsuspend it to get your own temporarily private lobby until it cycled back into the available ones. From what I remember, the busy-ness of the servers dictated how fast it would be cycled back into the list. Anywhere from 15 minutes at peak times to a few hours on slow days.
PC games started abandoning stand-alone servers long before cross-platform console ports became the norm.
Agreed. We should still be able to have player run servers for games. There can be an official page for servers, and an unofficial server page for the player run ones. I mean put a warning that the game content may change and all that, just like they did way back in Medal of Honor Allied Assault. Where people can run custom game rulesets.
I also agree with the other part. You should just be able to jump in and play, with friends or just alone if you felt like it. I haven't had the game installed in about 3 years, so I don't know what it's like now. Also calling it a lobby is my mistake. It's technically more set up like the xbox 360 used to be. Get friends together and jump into a game together.
I assume you can just friend only or lock the pre game setup ahead of time now. But I have no interest in installing GTA V just to see if that's the case.