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Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by scrlk on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:09PM (#34917304)
> How did the older games actually accomplish this?

Using Counter-Strike as an example: no matchmaking system - relied upon community hosted servers offering a wide range of game modes (official and community created). More competitive matches (pick-up games) were often found via IRC.

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Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by usrusr on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:47PM (#34918540)
With the consequence that games were suffering through a much harder sink or swim in terms of popularity: the matchmaking puts the threshold for "sufficiently popular" much lower. I'm not happy about the matchmaking, but there isn't really an alternative.
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Re:Valve bans 40k accounts after laying a trap for cheaters ... by Tool_of_Society on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:37PM (#34950957)
Yeah I had a whole slew of servers saved that I would regularly play on. If I was in a serious try hard mood I had a selection of servers I'd check. If I was in a half as I'm drunk and want to play I had a group of servers for that. If I wanted to play the warcraft 3 mod I had servers for that too. Even had servers for off the wall stuff talked about above.

Now I dunno...

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