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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Quake the first shooter to have a separate server where players could join and quit at will? At least that's what I remember at the time. In many games before Quake, if one player quit the whole game would quit. Rise of the Triad was great, but damn, it was painful if there was any sort of network hiccup. Quake was a revelation in that regard.