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Steam’s next big feature will make any “local multiplayer” game work online

• K0SM0S 7y ago
  I suggest we also feature a way for local solo games to work locally without a remote server. I hear it's possible... : )
  • michannne 7y ago
    You'd think the next logical step would be to make any online multiplayer game playable locally, not the other way around...
    • K0SM0S 7y ago
      My first thought exactly. Then I realized we actually have ever fewer solo games locally now... The complain I hear most is that newer games don't even have a local multiplayer mode (we used to complain it didn't have online maybe 10 years ago...) Besides I'm pretty sure you can fake 'local' using a point-to-point tunnel of sorts — it's just an IP, right? — whereas good luck to workaround online servers.