John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned

Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by antihipocrat on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:32PM (#34767228)

Recently on a whim I downloaded HL2 and logged into the deathwatch lobby. There are still self hosted servers active with dozens of players duking it out.

I joined in the fun, and for an hour I felt like I was 15 again, it's held up surprisingly well! If epic ever turns off the Fortnite server, it's just gone.

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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by Ntrails on Sunday February 12, 2023 @05:33PM (#34767852)

I like to believe that someone somewhere is still playing wolfenstein:ET

I had so much god damned fun playing that game

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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by fer on Sunday February 12, 2023 @05:42PM (#34767928)

It got recently released on Steam, so there's a large surge of players lately.

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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by FrostKiwi on Sunday February 12, 2023 @11:35PM (#34770160)

Wolfenstein:ET had and has a non-stop and alive playerbase and mapping scene. There are multiple communities hosting their modified Wolfenstein:ET version and making sure the different communities are reachable through one unified server browser.

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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by McBeige on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:00AM (#34773421)

Is this an example of federation?

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