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Publishers have watered down their communities in a way that encourages delinquent behavior, both cheating and toxicity. In old school, communities formed arou
by grayfaced 5y ago
Publishers have watered down their communities in a way that encourages delinquent behavior, both cheating and toxicity. In old school, communities formed around dedicated servers. There were servers that were really competitive, and others more casual. Now everyone is just disconnected random people.
I'm surprised we haven't seen discord server integration into matchmaking. Always play with the same discord community that enforces their own community standards and where reputation follows you.
- skibz 5y ago> I'm surprised we haven't seen discord server integration into matchmaking. This is a thing. I have personally written integrations for Discord, IRC, and web apps to manage private competitive (and casual) games for communities from various FPS and RTS video games. Sessions organised this way are known as pickup games, or "PUGs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_game)
- sizzle 5y agoI miss hanging out in StarCraft Clan servers on blizzard.net So much camaraderie and feeling like you were part of a community and something bigger than just a game. Made some lifelong friends that way.
- Akronymus 5y agoOne of my all time favourite servers was joe.to 's j2 server for tf2. Lots of fun to be had, sadly it fell apart. (Still occasionally in contact with some though.) The other would be cake from guns of icarus. I miss both communities.