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Having admins is the best way of ensuring a good experience. Play on servers with the same people coming back so there is a community. Play on servers where the
by alkonaut 3y ago
Having admins is the best way of ensuring a good experience. Play on servers with the same people coming back so there is a community. Play on servers where there are admins. If your game doesn’t allow communities to form for multiplayer games then vote with your wallet. “Casual” gaming where anyone jumps into a game with 63 unknown randos is never going to be pleasant as it will need to rely on automatic measures and reports only.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoDo any games that aren't Valve games even have this anymore?
- grotorea 3y agoI very rarely play multiplayer but don't indies still do this?
- GTP 3y agoThere are Minecraft servers like that.
- mmierz 3y agoI’ve been getting back into starcraft 1, and although there’s automatic matchmaking now there are still several old-style communities
- alkonaut 3y agoNot sure I still play the ones that do (And there are still lots of active servers for them). Example: Battlefield 4 still has quite a lot of activity.
- a_e_k 3y agoI rather miss this style. Back in my younger days, I had admin privileges on a UT2k4 server. There was usually a nice group of regulars around. If I was playing and one of the regulars reported someone suspicious I could go into spectator mode, watch through their point-of-view to make sure, record it to a demo file for evidence, and then immediately ban them. Beyond the community of regulars on our own server, we had good contacts with admins on other servers that catered to a similar gamestyle. We'd regularly exchange ban-lists with them. (I.e., there was kind of a meta community of server operators.) I realize that that doesn't scale the same way as modern approaches, but the modern approaches also feel like they're trying to use technical means to solve a social problem.