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.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 months ago
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.
metaStatic@kbin.social 2 months ago
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.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 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.