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by 0_____0 1143 days ago
Do LAN parties still exist? There used to be actual physical community around gaming and it's a shame it's died off.
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I'm part of a local community trying to keep them alive here. It's both sad to see a bunch of college kids completely new to the LAN concept, but encouraging to hear their remarks about how much fun they had. We used to have a few "LAN Centers" that shutdown around 5 or 6 years ago, but were dying since 2010.

My friends and I are all in our 30s enjoy bringing Quake3, UT2k4, Age of Empires II, Warcraft 2 / 3, Red Alert 2, Soldat and other LAN favorites to a new generation. Although I'm still struggling to convince them to let me destroy everyone in DOOM2/Quake1.

As far as I know there were only a couple serious ones in my country. I went a few times to one that stopped 12 years ago or so. The other one has one last tweet announcing it was getting cancelled due to covid.