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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: 2) by ledow on Monday August 10 2015, @01:25PM
I don't think it's a good idea, you'll never be able to keep up with the flux of games.
I run CS:GO, TF2 and Altitude servers already. I did have a Minecraft server but either nobody used it (when it had restrictions on) or people just griefed on it (when it didn't have restrictions).
I've run CS:CZ and CS 1.6 servers in the past and, although my servers were always popular, it was because I was always on them managing them. Expected the password for a server not to leak out to non-subscribers and/or for subscribers to be any different to random people on the net is probably a mistake.
I think it's away from the core purpose and will take a lot of time and effort (not to mention CPU and bandwidth), and you'll get whinged at the second it doesn't update or there's a suspected cheater, and it won't be much fun any more.
By all means have a list of servers, but having them as subscriber perks gives you an obligation you probably don't really want. Have a look on the server lists for the games you're interested in. Either they are commercial for individual websites and basically empty, or they are public and full to the brim, or quite often public and empty!
I'm happy to play, host, admin servers for myself merely because it gives me an irrevokable - and absolute - right to kick the idiots that I see while I'm trying to play a game and have everyone enjoy themselves, but I don't think it's something you should delve into behind a fun hobby that we can post a link to.
Oh, and I'm a subscriber, but I don't really think I'd ever use servers from here... nothing personal.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Monday August 10 2015, @03:49PM
I don't think the idea would be to keep up with the current games, I agree that would be a sidetrack from our efforts. But hosting something kinda retro (like Quake 1), or something nerdy/popular (like minecraft) might be fun.
(Score:1^½, Radical)