by synthetic » Sun Apr 13, 14 10:24 am
The community does not need an *owned* MS, but it needs many who are *responsible* for it. This is necessary to avoid nochancesque issues and ensure future reliability of the community-focused MS. Should the community be able to accomplish that, it would mark an unprecedented milestone of maturity.
With sufficient preparation by the community a player who really wants to play online will quickly find means of doing so thanks to today's search engines. Indeed, there will be an amount of loss in the form of those who can't be bothered, but it is better than nothing. At the very least the empty server list on goty or patched versions will raise some questions in some players, potentially leading to a quick google search.
However, seeing as we are unable to even patch the game, I have to reserve some doubt about our odds of making it all happen. Everybody and their grandmother hosting a master server from home laptops will not be the issue. Lack of cooperation will be.
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