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Yup. I hate how online matchmaking these days has made away with the community feel that picking your own server provided.

arca_vorago 9y ago
That feel still exists in certain communities, such as Insurgency and Arma III, which are both great on Linux.
- lotharbot 9y ago
  there are also still retro games being played, like Descent, with small and tight-knit communities.
alkonaut 9y ago
I still play a short list of favorite servers in BF4. This is a game from just a couple of years ago. Are you saying some newer games only have random matchmaking and no joining a favorite server?
- chrisper 9y ago
  Yes. Rainbow six siege is one of them.
- juliangoldsmith 9y ago
  Most new games I've seen have only random matchmaking, unfortunately. Even Quake Champions.
mrguyorama 9y ago
Another downside of current gen matchmaking is just how SHORT games are. Back when I played Halo 1 pc's multiplayer, you could watch a single Blood Gulch CTF game go on for an entire WEEK before one team got the 7 captures required to win on that server. It created a really interesting dynamic where attempts at the flag were each unique events, requiring planning, preparation, camaraderie and teamwork in a game without voice chat. You could leave a server to go to bed, and wake up the next day, hopping back on and see the same people on the same teams still going at it. It was much more IRC-like in feeling People built communities by just being on the same server often. Friendships were made, guilds too. But now all you have is 12 other little kids all free-for-alling shotguns for a brief 5 minute instant gratification fest
- ionstraub 9y ago
  I can totally agree. There's no way to go on the same server a few times a week and form friendships. Now you have to in many games specifically add someone as a friend and wait for them to confirm it, if you ever want to see that person again. But that's not organic and that's not how friendships develop. I can't make friends on Overwatch, for example. I wish more people would talk about how this has been totally stripped from online games nowadays. People don't even bother talking during matches, mostly because as you mention they are so short.
therealdrag0 9y ago
Games like League of Legends support custom games, but I don't get the impression that they are used much and I don't know if there are persistent servers there, so you don't get to go hangout with the same gang/community at will.

arca_vorago 9y ago

That feel still exists in certain communities, such as Insurgency and Arma III, which are both great on Linux.

lotharbot 9y ago
there are also still retro games being played, like Descent, with small and tight-knit communities.

alkonaut 9y ago

I still play a short list of favorite servers in BF4. This is a game from just a couple of years ago. Are you saying some newer games only have random matchmaking and no joining a favorite server?

chrisper 9y ago
Yes. Rainbow six siege is one of them.
juliangoldsmith 9y ago
Most new games I've seen have only random matchmaking, unfortunately. Even Quake Champions.

mrguyorama 9y ago

Another downside of current gen matchmaking is just how SHORT games are. Back when I played Halo 1 pc's multiplayer, you could watch a single Blood Gulch CTF game go on for an entire WEEK before one team got the 7 captures required to win on that server. It created a really interesting dynamic where attempts at the flag were each unique events, requiring planning, preparation, camaraderie and teamwork in a game without voice chat. You could leave a server to go to bed, and wake up the next day, hopping back on and see the same people on the same teams still going at it. It was much more IRC-like in feeling People built communities by just being on the same server often. Friendships were made, guilds too. But now all you have is 12 other little kids all free-for-alling shotguns for a brief 5 minute instant gratification fest

ionstraub 9y ago
I can totally agree. There's no way to go on the same server a few times a week and form friendships. Now you have to in many games specifically add someone as a friend and wait for them to confirm it, if you ever want to see that person again. But that's not organic and that's not how friendships develop. I can't make friends on Overwatch, for example. I wish more people would talk about how this has been totally stripped from online games nowadays. People don't even bother talking during matches, mostly because as you mention they are so short.

therealdrag0 9y ago

Games like League of Legends support custom games, but I don't get the impression that they are used much and I don't know if there are persistent servers there, so you don't get to go hangout with the same gang/community at will.