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Anon is a nostalgic gamer (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When is "back then" for you?

I played counter-strike during the beta days and team fortress when it was "classic" not "2"

I definitely had a handful of favourite servers (1-2 favourites, 2-3 backups) that I would play on and knew the regulars like an old country pub.

Now things are set up so that it's almost impossible to develop relationships with random folks online. Not just matchmaking but also more closed-off (hard to discover) groups on Discord etc..

CS1.6 and TFC was the golden age of online gaming and it's been downhill since then. Literally nothing has been improved upon and the community has become immeasurably more toxic.

We've lost IRC and dedicated servers and replaced it with matchmaking and Discord. Both objectively worse.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mid-late 2000s. Roughly 2005-2012.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah....that was the end times.