What was online gaming like in the 2000s?

>staying up way into the early morning before school started
>chatting with your RO guild members
>hopping across private servers
>talking to my yuropoor friends on msn
What happened? Why is everyone so jaded and cynical now? Zoomers are really the biggest buzzkills.

People would put AZN in their name, spam $$, and pwnd was the hottest word.

It was REALLY comfy. Maybe it's me getting old but I feel like new online games are more stressful and fast.

I played pso online, this isn't true at all.

However it was a lot more rare and there were zero moderators to control others, if you wanted to shout nigger all day nobody would stop you and there would be no consequences.

People didn't say it because it was considered crass and they wanted to make friends, not because they would be banned because of it.

Everyone would call you an edgelord and mocked you for it, then after a while nobody would play with them and they would leave.

PC niggers are honorary whites. Console crackas are dishonorable niggers.

Games have entire UX teams that are psychology majors gamifying every aspect to get you addled like a crackhead.

I meant that there were no niggers. Not that there were no people shouting "niggers".

Instead of you, two hundred idiots and twenty cool guys it was you, twenty idiots and two cool guys.

Not a lot has changed, although if I were this sassy on the yesternet I would have gotten a lot more nudes.

The thing about being an asshole is back in the day people mocked you for it and after a while they just got sick of acting out, if you're an asshole now they treat you like a serial killer.

So they made it cool.

It took me quite a while to figure out "AZN" meant "Asian" and not "Aztec". idk why I thought it meant Aztec.

CS1.6 and CSS were a lot of fun, endless custom maps and server mods. I miss those days, that sort of community can't live in a world where people use fucking worthless matchmaking. Halo and COD4 ruined everything.

Perhaps you thought it was related to de_aztec in some way?

Communities seemed better/friendlier/more open to bantz because there weren't micro-communities(discord channels nowadays) that only kept to themselves, and mic usage wasn't that wide-spread, so text chat was still the preferred option for communication.
Also internet as a whole wasn't taken as seriously as it is today, what with the "online harassment", "cyber bullying" and "death threats" when it's just some fag saying "lol kill urself".

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Games felt more creative. Not everything was a social network inside of a game. You didn't have to sync up your Myspace and AIM screen name in order to play Gunz with your kimchi friends and everyone was less autistic about games.

Blacks, essentially.

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No I only remember seeing it on old battle.net

Relaxing and fun. Like pretty much everything else on Pre-2007 internet.

Forgot pic

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Blink 182 chatrooms on AOL were not relaxing or fun.

Don't pretend you were there, there wasn't even any problem with race because the internet wasn't the politics infested cesspit it was now.

>hurr hackers on steroids caused Yea Forums to be shit
Yea Forums was always shit and gaiafags and the pool is closed!!!! habeeb it!1 dsfargeg you're the man now dog the game sage

People weren't spoiled by the 60 FPS meme back then.

Ok, then I have no idea either.
I grew up next to three vietnamese brothers, so I got the AZN shit right away. They were screaming shit like "GOT RICE BITCH" over voice chat.

There want a problem with race because the internet was a homogenous bubble of tech literate affluent white males, at least on the western hemisphere.

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>xXTaiMaiShu[AzN]Xx had joined the server

post-2007 was pretty good for me, I mean I got TF2 in 2009 so eh.

Okay, ALMOST everything.

Well yes, true, but I think the tech literate part was more important. You couldn't actually get on the internet if you weren't the type to tinker with computers. Now just put a smartphone in someone's hands and they can shit out their inane opinions everywhere within the hour.

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>what is the gateway milkbox phenomenon
Whether or not it's important is irrelevant when the overwhelming majority would have the safe presumption of just being among themselves. You didn't have Obamaphones back then and public schools weren't a trade school for STEM in disguise that they are now, where everyone is gifted a free Chromebook and rectangle.

The difference between being able braindump your hot takes then and now is that everything is saturated to the point that you'll never be heard to begin with. Threads on Yea Forums back in '07 would last days. Everything is a memory lapse that lasts minutes, if not seconds now.

>"GOT RICE BITCH"
based

PULL UP A CHAIR AND I Tell you a Tale!
HEY SHUT UP! OK IT WAS YEAR OUGHT DICKITY 20, WE HAD TO SAY DICKITY BECAUSE CLINTON COULDNT FIND HIS KEYS AND HAD A GIRL NAME MONICA LISTEN CLOSE TO HIS PANTS WHILE SHOOOOOOOOK THEM AROUND SO MONICA COULD HEAR THEM. CLINTON WENT HOT YEAR! BACK THEN, ANWAYS WHERE WAS I OH YEAH! ONLINE GAMING, WE DIDNT CALL IT ONLINE GAMING WE CALLED IT LAN TINFOIL PALMERSIDE. THAT WAS WHEN WE ONLY HAD COWS ON THE SCREEN AND YOU HAD TO KILL THEM ALL WITH YOUR BROADSWORD, THEN THERE WAS THE SPACE SHOOTER ON THE COMPUTER, WE CALLED IT FLOATY BUMPER CAR LAZER SHOW. NOW THAT WAS ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

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idk what half these ppl are talking about. we weren't standing around holding hands singing kumbiya in the early 2000s. yeah, mmos were comfier back then, but that's only because they were niche and skewed toward an older audience, so there was more of a sense of community. the wizened neckbeards who played those games didn't want to scare anybody away. counter-strike was a cesspool. first of all the servers were run by individuals so to even connect you had to download half a hard drive worth of simpsons mp3s. then when you connected you heard the sound of firefights and "doh!" "doh!" "doh!" "doh!" being spammed over and over again with an occasional "eat my shorts." the next thing you heard was a 12-year-old screeching "no you're a fucking retard! you use the awp!" because he's in an argument with a stoner college kid who's failing his classes and who'll mic up whenever he rips the bong to let you know that he smokes weed. also his name -][420][-SniperWolf. you choose sides and spawn and right away you're staring at the meatspin gif because somebody sprays it in the spawn area every round. you play for a while, listening to the kid and the stoner argue while people beg them to shut up, and eventually you make the mistake of killing the guy who owns the server one too many times. he bans you. reason: wallhacking. you go back to talking to your friends on trillian.

I only did it once with aoe2 and they laughed at me and called me king of the losers:(

mmos were filled to the brim with scammers.

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yeah people were a lot more talkative. good times.

I don't think it was that luxurious but it was definitely a niche for nerds of all kinds and social rejects. Spent a lot of time playing online Diablo at a friend's place. I miss that sometimes.

No niggers, no women, no Jews.

Comfy.

There were actual communities that built up inside games.
You didn’t have a discord and a Facebook page and a steam group.
You wanted to talk to people you got in game, maybe on vent.
It was nice.
People actually spoke to one another and made friends. Worked together instead of pressing the ‘queue me for a free dungeon run I don’t have to engage with’ button and never actually doing the ‘mm’ part of mmorpg

The internet is like your hometown.

Was nice, clean and safe when you were a kid.

Now it’s full of niggers, leftists and it’s run down and dirty.

It’s weird, people didn’t take shot so seriously with regards to cyber bullying and shot, but at the same time people were more earnest it felt like.
People have more of a shit about their internet communities in their games.

>You didn't have Obamaphones

Holy shit shut up you clueless moron

go line up for some of dat ebt monies

>You didn't have Obamaphones
>Obamaphones

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one of the things that was great about online gaming back then was that everything wasn't so locked-down and walled-garden like it is now. online gaming now and online gaming then is like the difference between iphone and android, so to speak. look at overwatch. no player-run servers. no mods. no custom maps. in the early 2000s, connecting to a server in an fps was like visiting a town. each server was its own culture with its own admins, its own rules, its own tweaks to the game, its own vibe and atmosphere. now everything is sterile and homogenous. maybe it's pretentious to quote cornel west when im talking about counter-strike, but playing online games in the early 2000s was fun because it was "funky." west uses that word to mean imperfect but good. it wasn't as safe and as streamlined, it wasn't as convenient, but there was a lot of variety and creativity. the player had more freedom to shape games, to build them and break them, and that led to a lot of bullshit, but it also led to a lot of brilliance. i wish games these days would loosen up.

Why would they do that?
If servers can be run by anyone with infinite moddability, then the devs can’t package basic joke memes as aMONTHLY ARCADE SPECIAL~~ to draw people in.
Nor can they shut down the servers when they release the sequel to force people to move over.
And of corse since they all have fucking loot boxes now which they want to sell to you for money, if you can have a private server running which might somehow give out more of those? Well we can’t have that now can we. You’re cutting into their profits

That's the 90s not the 2000s, retard

yep, you're right about all, and around the corner is paying for mods. it would be one thing if mod creators themselves started demanding payment and the culture changed because of that. that would be legitimate. but what we have instead is big companies agitating a mod culture that's historically been about giving mods away and doing it for the love, poking this culture with a stick and whispering to the creators that they should be paid, not out of benevolent concern for them but so that they can get slice of the profits. that is not legitimate. but that's what's coming.