Matchmaking

[rocketpig]

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Oh I hate that too. I used to play StarCraft drunk as hell every single night, and I would bump into the same people in the same time zone at like 4 in the morning, and we slowly all realized we were all drunk, and played together for a whole year until I moved back to the west coast. People were just passing out during games and it was hilarious, and we'd even let each other pause the game to make more drinks. I can't do that with strangers. Matchmaking should be an option, but never forced. I think Battle.Net is still the best system.

Exactly. All my friends and I would get hammered while playing CS. We'd all hit the same server and every once in awhile, you'd see someone go AFK with a message of "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM", which means he passed out on his keyboard (literally, this happened more than once).

We all had our entire keyboards bound and you would know who was playing simply from their bind messages. It was great times. No one cared if someone went AFK (which we all did constantly) because at 3am, urination and smoking is of utmost importance and to be respected, if not revered. No one cared if someone went TMP-crazy because it was funny. No one got kicked and we all played for hours.

Matchmaking ruins every single element of that.

Oh, how I miss my bind messages...

"Pik" "Pika" "PIKACHUUUUU!!!" (three different binds, used after every kill)

"I SURRENDER!" (beginning of every round)

"VIVA LA RESISTANCE!" (after every death)

On top of about 30 more binds I had...