I'm a Millennial and I grew up with server browsers. And quite honestly, it fucking sucked and I'm glad it died

I'm a Millennial and I grew up with server browsers. And quite honestly, it fucking sucked and I'm glad it died.

>Server is filled to the prim with unnecessary mod files that you have to download. Half of them are used by circle jerking mods and admins
>Shitty amateur made maps
>Stupid fucking RP servers
>"PISTOLS ONLY" and other retarded ass game modes that don't make sense
>Depending on what server you join there's always some power hungry admin/mod that you have to kiss their ass or have to be in their bubble of friends to be relevant in the server

And to top it all off, people act like server browsers were the last bastion of freedom of speech online. It wasn't like that at all. Majority of servers did not allow racism at all and you would get kicked.

Stop romanticizing dedicated servers. I'm fucking glad zoomercore shooter games has a quick play button. All I want to do is hit play, and set me up. I don't give a fuck about SBMM.

>"W-WELL JUST FILTER OUT THE SERVERS"
I do, and all the servers are fucking dead. Case closed.

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>People like thing
>THAT MAKE ME MAD

This is an actual cope post lmfao

It was about having options my guy. Hardcore servers, christian servers, furry servers, whatever the fuck you're into, you could find like minded people to play and chill with. And, you even formed relationships with people on servers you frequented

>And, you even formed relationships with people on servers you frequented
Another reason I'm glad server browsers died. What's with this hugbox mentality with you fucks? Lmfao. I'm here to play a video game.

>Making friends
>hugbox

I'm sorry you are antisocial but that's no excuse to ruin human interaction for everyone else.

It's called having genuine IRL friends. Online friends aren't real.

I miss server browsers because of the custom maps
Playing Goldeneye and Perfect Dark maps in Counter Strike
Balloon Race was great in TF2

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>I'm a Zoomer and I missed out on server browsers
We know.

>download rising hub this week
>20 people online at peak
>kill someone corner peeking
>it was the admin
>You are being kicked from the server for killing afk (admin witnessed blatant afker)
Bro, maybe start with a warning when your entire player base struggles to fill two servers.

No, what you're mistaking as "genuine" vs" "fake" is actually called "compartmentalization" - the ability to have a thing in one part of your life, but not have it in other parts. It's wholely possible to be friends with someone for the period of time you're online, and then neither of you think twice about it once you're out of that space.
BTW this is also a part of RL relationships. You might spend two hours a night a week wearing a top hat and a loincloth and spanking donkeys in a dark basement room for the benefit of other men wearing hoods who you paid to clap for you, but none of your friends are going to attend that shit even if you asked, ever.

You can stop larping now zoomzoom

>filled to the prim

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retard
>Server is filled to the prim with unnecessary mod files that you have to download. Half of them are used by circle jerking mods and admins
join a different server
>Shitty amateur made maps
join a different server
>Stupid fucking RP servers
join a different server? wtf are you doing
>"PISTOLS ONLY" and other retarded ass game modes that don't make sense
join a different server
>Depending on what server you join there's always some power hungry admin/mod that you have to kiss their ass or have to be in their bubble of friends to be relevant in the server
over exaggerated and o, join a different server
>Majority of servers did not allow racism at all and you would get kicked.
good, that's why it was better. It had admins actually playing the game and as you said
>Lmfao. I'm here to play a video game.
not entertain the amazing humor of an 11 year olds first internet experience online spamming nigger nigger nigger

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As long as you idiots keep posting in my thread, I'll keep planting typoes.

>join a different server
Yeah and when I found one I wanted it was either full or empty. Next.

ofc sweaty now go shitpost somewhere else

Why not use both?
AoE2 DE has matchmaking and server browser

Depending on the game/mod just hopping on another server was easier said than done. Take The Specialist for example. It was a pretty fun HL1 mod but almost every fucking server was a shitty boring RP server. Finding a server that was just good old dm/tdm fun was a fucking chore.

None of those things you listed has anything to do with server browsers.
I'm convinced you're a normie, possibly retarded, and you should stop playing games on PC.

>>And to top it all off, people act like server browsers were the last bastion of freedom of speech online. It wasn't like that at all. Majority of servers did not allow racism at all and you would get kicked.
This is true, but you're completely miscategorizing it. What is considered racist now, were just jokes back then, people would call each other fags and niggers with no vitriol behind it.
People would say shit like "stop being such a fag and go suck some dick instead" to people gay people who were doing annoying shit

Are the people making these threads getting paid or is it a single autist doing it for free?

Not OP but no you really couldn't, that was why server browsers kind of sucked. Games weren't as popular then, you eventually just conceded on facets of your ideal server because otherwise you couldn't play the damn game.

i agree with you, but there's no real reason to no have both.