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Quite wrong...
Just compare HL standard attendance last year and now...
Mods generate a lot of activity on forums... but as expected, online greatly suffered from the variety of choice. Today, with the mods, there's not ONE possible game install, but myriads... so most of the onliners are restricted to squad play (groups with same or alike install...)
... just like we forecasted before the mods fashion...
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Fantastic news, which I also forcasted in hopes this would happen. Squads are the way to prevent "cheating" without helplessly depending on the developer crippling the sim for the Offline players who pay for "free" online gameplay.
...unless you go Pay-To-Play.
...or Oleg focuses
first on the Offline players who, if they are kept interested in the sim, can provide funding for "free"
and "cheat free" private and anonymous public server gameplay which is what I hope Oleg does in the future, and I already know you agree (rather than pay monthly fees to ubi).
The only problem is Newbies who try online before joining a private squad (or not desiring to). Sadly, the anonymous public server segment had the last 7 years to join the Offline players and private server Online players in their requesting Oleg for *official* modding ability which might have been able to prevent any current "issues" with Hyperlobby, instead of the hack modding of today. But the vocal self-appointed anonymous public server "leadership" refused to offer support. Opportunity lost. Maybe its not too late for BoB And Beyond
