Want To Play The Multiplayer FPS Games You Bought?

Posted by simoniker on Monday April 19, 2004 @07:08PM from the delicious-vanilla dept.

Thanks to GamerDad for its editorial discussing why it's sometimes impossible to play multiplayer FPS titles as the developers intended it. The author argues: "I certainly don't think that every mod I've ever run across is better than the core game that ships in the box but yet there's often no one running the boxed game", before noting that most game publishers "...do not run their own servers for these games so you can't count on them supporting the boxed game either. There are exceptions to this rule but for the most part when it comes to PC games, you're at the whims of the many fan owned and operated servers... [which may] limit the maps to a select few in a deathmatch game or change the settings of the game to make it play very differently from what you expect."

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you can always *gasp* host a game by cyrax777 · 2004-04-19 20:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

ill probly get modded as flame bait but still it needs to be said You can always host your own game or rent a server set up just the way you like it. Since this inst pay to play I doubt were going to see offical servers pop up like crazy as much as I would like it. America's Army thank god has a host of Offical Servers of course its got the finacal backing of the US goverment.