I salute a fellow LAN-gamer and partake in the sorrow for the loss of this once greatest gaming option. The best multiplayer experiences I ever had were hotseat or getting the crew together for something like this. If you weren't all the way in Argentina, I'd join you. At least for UT, StarCraft and WORMS. 😁

That sucks, not entirely a covid thing though, ppl were making memes about it before... https://imgur.com/a/yuvE3
Meaning as ppl move on with their lives, have relationships, families, real jobs, it all gets hectic and it's hard to make plans and keep them.

I sometimes meet some friends for a long Warcraft 3 Tower Defense session. We haven't done this since Covid appeared.

The last LAN party I held was way back in the early 00s and the A/C at our house failed on a hot, humid summer day. Yeah, let's just say no one felt like playing anymore and the computers had huge floor fans blowing on them. It took an entire day just to set it all up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At least you have friends to plan a lan party with. For me it's hard enough already to play recent games with friends and none of them are interested in old games.

I haven't been to a LAN since the early 2000s. It was fun at the time but when we all got fast internet I think we saw no reason to. Internet was in many ways a blessing to gamers, but not socially, as it made gamers, who usually are already by their very nature, more introvert.

Thing is that most people never really know what is good for them, and it is healthy even for the most introverted, to socialize. It takes an effort though, and when you have a family and work full time, it is not that easy.

Setting up the LAN always was a challenge back then. It always took a half day to find out who had the defective tee connector or terminator.

One of my last lanpartys, 3 years ago - befor Covid.

It was a "3dfx only" Party and my neighbours on the left and right both had such a beast in operation

I miss it 🙁

Hirsch wrote on 2022-01-06, 20:15:

Setting up the LAN always was a challenge back then. It always took a half day to find out who had the defective tee connector or terminator.

you need to own all the computers, that is the only way to not waste time