• ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I miss when I could buy an FPS and just have it. Perhaps people have been trained to expect a game like this to shut down quickly, which might lead to a vicious cycle where they stop playing it and paying into it, expecting their money to disappear and that they could have spent that time getting better at a game that’s going to last.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I know this is an old geezer comment but I miss FPS games where you could configure and host your own server. To this day I can still boot and find Unreal Tournament (1999) servers with active lobbies.

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        3 months ago

        I wish we could go back to this. It would certainly increase the longevity of some games.

      • Prox@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Does Halo Infinite let players do this now? Or are you “only” able to run your own game/lobby on a dedicated cloud server?