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So, I've recently revived my gaming streak, and for as long as I've gamed, I've always enjoyed interacting with others. As such, I'm curious what games SN folks play. I've been strongly tempted to setup a Minecraft server for SoylentNews, but I don't really want to put in the effort if no one else is interested in playing. So, here's my simple question for the community; what games do you play, and would you want to play on an SN hosted server?
I'm tempted to make any gaming-related things be a subscriber perk, as an attempt to both increase subscriber benefits, and make such a target harder to grief. Not sure if it's a great idea, so I'd love to get feedback below.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Monday August 10 2015, @06:13PM
As an overlord, shouldn't you be dictating which game we'll be playing this weekend : ) But really, a good option is a game where meta-gaming is possible and your group is supposed to carve out a piece of the world. It can be event based and not persistent too. Take minecraft for example. There are already so many servers. Instead of having a permanent SN server you can have event weekends where you post the ip:port of a public server and we all join together. This gets more people on at the same time and a (probably) under-utilized server gets some use.
Event based and episodic style play adds variety and could keep people interested. TF2, Mount & Blade Warband, Agar.io, or whatever steam sale is best that week. Plenty of free-to-plays out there too.
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday August 12 2015, @02:31PM
Well, at the moment, I'm out of town, on a internet link so slow, SN takes 15-30 seconds per page load, so streaming is basically impossible. I may stream some other games from my library + occassional DF/Minecraft stuff.
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