shutting down most central servers is a death sentence anyway. I'm not putting another decade of grinding into a private server when my Diablo 3 characters are gone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah... For battle royal and extraction shooters I think it would also be pretty hard to come close to the experience on private servers.

Granted, I wouldn't mind being able to play e.g. Hunt Showdown with some friends on a private server/in a private match. It wouldn't be what it is today, but it could still be fun.

It's not like games with large populations are really getting shut down anyways. The games that are killed are already dead for most people. I really only am bothered by it when it's a clearly single player/offline friendly game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

BRs never caught my interest but I always assumed they where a clean slate each game, which is actually the perfect kind of game for private servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The thing about them is you need people to be at close to the same skill level or they're just not fun.

[–] MisterChief 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. But not impossible. Insignia got original Halo 2 Xbox Live servers back online. Most nights you can find a game easily with 20-40 people online during peak hours. It requires a soft mod and maybe 1-2 hours of set up to get online. If anyone could just turn on their old Xbox and play, I'm confident those numbers would be in the hundreds at least.

Allowing people to run private servers is an easy way to allow those that want to play to keep playing in an era where most games have some level of online functionality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It requires a soft mod and maybe 1-2 hours of set up to get online.

My Xbox 360 is gathering dust because, unlike all my other consoles, I am not able to mod it myself :/ (softmod).

I did not know the original Xbox had a softmod though.