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    34 months ago

    People can barely find anyone to play with globally over the internet. It wouldn’t work as a lan game.

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      134 months ago

      Any game works as a LAN game. That’s the advantage of being a LAN game. Of course, when you build a game like that, you know not to assume that you’ll always have 10 players in a match, and you build it to scale to that. If they released it with LAN and a deathmatch mode for any number of players, even if they did no rebalancing on the character designs to account for it and the there were obvious top tiers and low tiers, I’d still buy it.

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        14 months ago

        I’m saying that if there aren’t enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you’re not going to find people to play with locally.

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          14 months ago

          And I’m saying that if you throw in a quick deathmatch mode, it’s playable with only one friend. And when a game has LAN, that means that you can play with a gaming VPN regardless of the presence of official servers.

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      74 months ago

      Gameboy Advance had single-pak link (buy one copy, play with up to 4 linked devices) 20 years ago.

      Greed has defeated the technology, though.