Its something that has pained me greatly in the last couple of years.
I completely agree. Game devs have stripped so much away from the user. Matchmaking, lack of server hosting, no mods. It feels like much of the community has gone.
I play BF5 regularly and there's still a large number of 64 player servers full all day, every day. However, there's very few community servers and cheaters are so common. EA/Dice have abandoned it and there's no way for the community to keep it going.
Another game I used to play, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, is free to download [1] and still has plenty of community hosted servers/mods. That's a game coming up to its 20 year anniversary.
I completely agree. Game devs have stripped so much away from the user. Matchmaking, lack of server hosting, no mods. It feels like much of the community has gone.
I play BF5 regularly and there's still a large number of 64 player servers full all day, every day. However, there's very few community servers and cheaters are so common. EA/Dice have abandoned it and there's no way for the community to keep it going.
Another game I used to play, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, is free to download [1] and still has plenty of community hosted servers/mods. That's a game coming up to its 20 year anniversary.
[1] https://www.splashdamage.com/games/wolfenstein-enemy-territo...