We had a third option in the old days: Play on private servers with your community, or on public servers where the community vote-kicks cheaters. It wasn't perfect, but it did work pretty good.
Unfortunately the industry decided to leave private/player-hosted servers behind, and modern genres like battle royale require unreasonably high player counts, so we're kind of stuck.
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We had a third option in the old days: Play on private servers with your community, or on public servers where the community vote-kicks cheaters. It wasn't perfect, but it did work pretty good.
Unfortunately the industry decided to leave private/player-hosted servers behind, and modern genres like battle royale require unreasonably high player counts, so we're kind of stuck.
Community game servers are the greatest man. So lame how most games don’t support this now.
There are still lots of games that allow you to host private servers.