As per the article, persistence, and a way to bypass DICE.
Speaking for myself, I miss multiplayer games before they had XP and progression.
As per the article, persistence, and a way to bypass DICE.
Speaking for myself, I miss multiplayer games before they had XP and progression.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They are persistent, they stay open as long as someone is in it. No one is kicked after the game.
Bypass dice isn’t a feature but a fantasy, never happening. I don’t really get what it would bring to the table either.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The ability to keep the video game. The ability to play it on a LAN. It’s not a fantasy; it’s history. We used to have this.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s more then a server browser. You are just being deceptive. You cherry picked the one quote in the article that makes it look like there is nothing.
What you are talking about is a whole other debate entirely and simply not how the industry runs anymore when it comes to multiplayer shooters.
I want that stuff too but that’s not what server browser means. The finals and cod don’t have server browsers. Bf6 will have a server browser.
gwheel@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
IMO it’s the opposite, what exists now is less than a server browser. I’d call it a custom games browser instead. Whichever one you pick will be on the official servers.
I agree it isn’t how the industry is now, but it isn’t going to improve if everyone just accepts it.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The ideas are bound together. Same with anti cheat. Same with preservation. Removing private servers caused all of these problems at the same time. The author of the article speaks for the group who want the community that I admitted never mattered to me, that Portal doesn’t provide, but other knock-on effects of the death of the server browser do matter to me.