Topic: "Hardly anyone plays first-person shooters on the PC anymore"

[Pugnate]

hah! Exactly!

[Xessive]

Man, those were the good ol' days! hehe

Looking back at how simple things used to be it makes you wonder how needlessly complicated they're becoming.

[MysterD]

Man...
Quake 2, Q3: Arena, Unreal, RTCW - all those games online were awesome. Those were the days...

[scottws]

Until console FPS games can accomodate 32 or more players, I will never consider console multiplayer to be a superior experience.

[K-man]

Well, Resistance:  Fall of Man did that a number of years ago.

[Xessive]

MAG on the PS3 boasts 256 players online simultaneously.. I checked out the beta/demo a while back.. It was meh.

[MysterD]

You're right, it WAS easier back in the day. The trouble we've had getting Borderlands multiplayer going is something I never saw before.

See, that's the other thing.

Borderlands' PC-base online got split pretty badly b/c its GameSpy implementation out-the-box was bugged for most people - unless you DMZ'ed your PC. I couldn't get it going on G-Spy, until Gearbox patched the thing up - some few months later.

By that time Gearbox dropped that patch, most BL PC gamers were already using GameRanger, a 3rd party on their own unofficially who decided to step-up and support gamers until Gearbox tried ironing things out. There were hundreds of BL PC servers going on GR; while you were lucky if you saw 5 servers on G-Spy and REAL lucky if yoy could get it going there. I jumped on G-Spy the other day and G-Ranger, to see how many BL games were going - about 30 on GR, 30 on GameSpy...