Do you still like LAN parties?

[enator15]

Saw and app called "LAN Party" on Steam and wondering if people still make the effort to go to them. I've found that it has become more difficult to get together physically as I've gotten older.

 

[Alm]

There's a huge LAN party called Dreamhack that happens once a year. I think there's another one but I forget the name.

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I personally have only been to LAN parties with Xboxes. Once I had a good PC, LAN parties were hard to come by with my friends. I'm not really interested in carting a PC halfway across the world.

 

[Pifanjr]

It's hard enough to find time when all my friends are available for a regular online game, let alone a full LAN party.

 

[Johnway]

i think with broadband connection, its unlikely we'll ever see lan parties. I suspect we only did it because of poor internet connections (56k modems). The recent decline of 3rd party hosting and community servers mean that there's less chance of it happening.

never went to one myself, went around to family/relatives and we all huddled around the SNES or playstation but thats about it.

 

[BeardyHat]

Can't say I've been to one since I was a teenager. That said, I do have this fantasy of setting up a bunch of my old PCs on my basement to invite all my friends over and play.

Honestly wouldn't be too bad if I had a couple more laptops, though I think my friends each have one. However, when we actually do get together in person, it's usually an opportunity to get away from our screens and play stuff physically.

 

[COLGeek]

Can't say I've been to one since I was a teenager. That said, I do have this fantasy of setting up a bunch of my old PCs on my basement to invite all my friends over and play.

Honestly wouldn't be too bad if I had a couple more laptops, though I think my friends each have one. However, when we actually do get together in person, it's usually an opportunity to get away from our screens and play stuff physically.

Sounds like a good way to play Unreal Tournament.

 

[January's Ghost]

I've never been to one. While I was definitely a computer geek back in the day I was never part of any of the groups or clubs that did stuff like that. I disliked a lot of the people that were in the computer scene in my area (not a large area).

I did go to a lot of the events where people would sell and trade, but that's about it.