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No, the death of splitscreen was. Since OP is inviting console wars LAN dying in the early 2000's was more to do with PC gaming being fucking dead and nobody wanting to play point & click casual baby shooters because they moved on from their teenage school shooter years. Consoles kept it alive quite a lot longer simply because the games are better and the audience is less retarded & autistic, so there was a genuine desire to have people play the game with you. Some devs allowed system linking for lan parties quite easily, others not so much but split screen kept that local play alive in a variety of ways. If PC games were more than just console gaming but with even less features and less of a tendency to be on 21" screens then maybe it would have some local multiplayer relevance. The reality is a lot funnier because instead of embracing their good qualities PC gamers sold themselves out and embraced cuckoldry, matchmaking, not owning anything they pay for and demanded more console style games. Since PC gaming has that former quality of not being good for local multiplayer devs just ignored the good console features and said lol eat shit faggots and the players actually supported them.

Console gaming still has pretty great local play, either pass on death, multiplayer, splitscreen, versus, etc. PC has those pity indie games that you can lug out your shit oil rig to mommys living room TV so you can play that shitty cooking game at equal to console settings and realize you wasted all your money on a shit PC none of your friends want to play with.

Basically it's PC gamers fault PC gaming sucks so much ass.

>>16069714

>split screen

That is not popular on consoles as well.

>lan play on consoles

????

When is the last time you saw a bunch of linked with a consoles.

LAN clubs and parties would sometimes include consoles mind you. But strategy game lan parties was and still is a distinct PC thing.

>>16070777

I know this is a shitpost, but anon, tell me what the L in LAN stands for.

>>16070777

>Isn't the internet just a big LAN?

Yes with huge latencies between players.

>>16069714

>Console gaming still has pretty great local play, either pass on death, multiplayer, splitscreen, versus, etc.

Mostly likely on Nintendo consoles however on Sony and Xbox it's rare and usually limited.

>>16070812

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Are there any good modern games that are good for LAN? Bonus points if it isn't shit

Kind of the price of convenience. Once people would try to work hard to want to play together, now your connected instantly and people rarely want to group up unless it's at a convention or some e-sports tournament. Turning games into serious business with sponsorship killed lan or isolated it to just select places. This also help eliminate the couch co-op experience.

>>16069684

> What did companies get out of killing LAN

people just got access to cheap internet

also they get to data mine you and sell you subscriptions

No, the death of splitscreen was the death of social gaming. LAN was the first big hurdle jumped on the run towards its death.

The last bastion for social gaming is fighting games, which are fine and all but they're only 2 players at a time which is very restrictive and lame.

>>16069725

Splitscreen was popular on consoles, and in the few notable games that have it (such as the Splinter Cell/Tom Clancy games, can't remember which one) it still is

Companies largely decided to abandon it for some reason though.

>>16069714

Console gaming's local play is largely dead. Games that should have it usually don't now.

>consoles kept it alive a lot longer simply because the games are better

Now that's not true at all.

PC gaming was most definitely not "dead" at the time. Online just blew up on PC faster than it did for consoles, but you're right about the audience's different tastes and the overall tendencies for PC.

At the end of the day though, you could say the same thing about consoles killing off arcades.

Widely accessible and relatively good internet killed local play in general. In the case of Amerikwa, everyone being spread out because of fucking suburban sprawl has made social gaming much harder.

>>16070812

>I know this is a shitpost, but anon, tell me what the L in LAN stands for.

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>>16069684

> Look at this vid. This is not some ancient period of time, this was a mere 13 years ago.

Yeah dude lans were sweet with all the attractive girls grinding our cocks. Shut the fuck up, zoomer retard.

>>16093894

>didn't see the lan room

>saw only the skanks

great job

>>16093894

at least you make it easy to spot you

lmao go back

I mean small to midsize LANs are dead just because the locations that can host it can't deal with the network requirements. Half of the shit nowadays has some sort of MUST BE ON INTERNET CONNECTION BS.

Big events like Quakecon are still alive and kicking, though the actual LAN only playing part of it is dead really. I remember back in 2010 you would basically be forced to play CS with the people in the actual convention center with you. Last year people were still playing the same games, but just in the same servers they did at home. They just happened to be surrounded by more nerds than usual.

>>16096936

I hate faggots who go to LAN parties and just play their own shit. That's why when I host don't give anyone internet acces

Still here in sweden LANs are quite popular. Besides dreamhack winter and summer more local events are regular, even the town i live close to with not even a pop of 20k has a winter and summer LAN with nearly 1k seats. The worst thing though is that all the events are kid friendly so no fun is allowed and (((e-sports))) are pushed at every chance they've got.

Even LANs among friends are a regular thing, even i sometimes gather with some "friends" for a LAN. While the people suck, the comfy feeling of cramping 6 guys in a dirty appartment and playing games together is something i'll never forget.

I don't want to play with you because you're an asshole.