Lack of community servers is my personal bone to pick with newer games. Auto-matchmaking is to blame. When you can join the same server every time you play, it

Lack of community servers is my personal bone to pick with newer games. Auto-matchmaking is to blame. When you can join the same server every time you play, it becomes like a third-place, you see the same faces over and over and get to know people. You have fun, everyone is nicer to eachother because they know they will see you again, you pick up on their playstyles etc, a very rich experience. Auto-matchmaking removes that entirely, every match is with randoms, and everyone gets depersonalized to a nametag and so people start feeling comfortable being the worst to eachother. Community servers also allowed for small communities to build up around these small maps and game modes, garunteed there was a fy_iceworld 24/7 server where people used to frequent and get to know eachother. Surf maps are anothing thing that would never have happened without community servers/server lists etc.