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#1329966 23-Jun-2015 15:05

What games do people play at LAN Parties these days?

UT and CS were the big ones at those LAN Parties in the early 00's. There'd be 60+ people crammed into a church hall in Belmont on a Saturday with a make shift network put up and game play late into the night. Fun, fun, fun. From memory they were called GeekFest.

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#1330180 23-Jun-2015 19:48

Ceythos:

Welcome!

I had such high hopes for Vanguard but it just didn't really come together, and I ended up just staying addicted to EQ until I finally weened myself off the crack a few years later :-) Smedley and Aradune stole a decade of my life lol :-P

One of the first things I did when I started working at SoE was look up exactly how many hours I'd logged in their products. I won't repeat it here, but it wasn't a small amount of time invested - I simultaneously curse and thank Smed and McQuaid for those hours spent in the same breath :)

I cry a little inside looking back and remembering my primary EQ character had a played time measured in years.

I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.

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#1330188 23-Jun-2015 19:51

On the subject of LANS

http://www.pingzero.co.nz/ AKL
http://www.got-lan.co.nz/ CHC
Xlan is dead, killed off by Playtech
UrbanLan (Hamilton) is gone, but LANFlat have stepped up http://www.lanflat.net/
SMG still sometimes have lans in Wellington

Any others people know of?

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#1330202 23-Jun-2015 20:16

keewee01: What games do people play at LAN Parties these days?

UT and CS were the big ones at those LAN Parties in the early 00's. There'd be 60+ people crammed into a church hall in Belmont on a Saturday with a make shift network put up and game play late into the night. Fun, fun, fun. From memory they were called GeekFest.

Last LAN I had consisted of Unturned, CS:GO, L4D2, Trackmania among others..... primarily came down to what everyone could run as some of us dont have powerhouse systems.

Gavin / xpd / FastRaccoon / Geek of Coastguard New Zealand

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