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The most popular game modes in Overwatch and CSGO are their ranked modes. They'd lose much of their playerbases if they didn't have those modes, and you can't r
by DavidVoid 6y ago
The most popular game modes in Overwatch and CSGO are their ranked modes. They'd lose much of their playerbases if they didn't have those modes, and you can't really have them without the inclusion of developer-controlled anti-cheat in the client.
And console games did not have server software 10-12 years ago so I think it's a bit unfair to claim that the move away from player-hosted servers was only done for monetary reasons.
- kroltan 6y agoThere were ranked modes way before centralized multiplayer services, Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike, all had ladders (as they were called at the time since it was a literal list of people sorted by stats - they could easily just present the Elo score or whatever instead), both official or community-hosted.
- ashtonkem 6y agoBattlefield 2142 actually had the concept of ranked and unranked servers. Unranked servers allowed for more modification, but didn’t affect your global rank for obvious reasons, leading to sillier game play. It was a fairly effective system, IMHO.
- http-teapot 6y agoAmerica’s Army also had this back in early 2000s