(Image credit: Yuichiro Chino via Getty) See here the complete read of the PCG Q&A. Some interesting things: How many games did you finish this year? – What games did you buy over a single time? – Do you think this steam tank will succeed? Have you ever had an internet stop working every time it rains? Would you put your foot too close to the router? It took four hours to load an Evangelion AMV? Maybe you have never had this much trouble, but we’ve some sort of trouble having trouble getting up and running with a internet connection, either because of that unprofessional or in a mad warehouse, you have no money. After a long time, you’re accustomed to securing games for your best friends and relatives, and eventually you’re going to go back and relax at these games. What is the worst connection you had? What did it affect your gaming? Here are the answers of our forum. A journalist, Nat Clayton, Before the university, I spent several months researching the entire world for free. One of the first things I wanted to do was take care of sled dogs at an isolated kennel in the fjords of Norway. My American was traveling at the time but I knew it had no thou really in the super Monday night combat scene that still had a very narrow group, with its dead throes. We had previously managed to play a few games in the Netherlands while working in the bamboo / Christmas tree farm, but when we hung up in the cold north, we was fighting the ping rate that normalised at a healthy 1000ms. When we threw a few customs on the SMNC with friends, we often became overwhelmed in finding a way of calling on our names and to the deaths. We waited a minute to make up a single frame until we could meet the task of taking part in Guild Wars 2’s Lost Shores event. I would like to say that we quickly abandoned any idea of the desire to fill the long nights with games on the web. Sarah James, Guides Writer: In the original CoD: Black Ops, I adored that game with my ego. However, I had time to play a huge multiplayer role, and even with a very slow connection, the main point was that I was unhappy. For themajority of the day, I can boast an average 3Mb download speed, but the output was often throttled to 500kb in the evening. What’s surprising is that it didn’t really make a big difference to my gaming. I mean, evenings of Black Ops were unplayable, but the slow connection never slowed down in my face. Even the latter time, if I don’t have some problems, then I’m going to have to adjust to it. Installing games was difficult. I think it took an average of a day to download the Cataclysm expansion of WoW. Tom, writer, My internet connection at university was absolutely terrible, and it made me even worse for our already nocturnal sleep schedule. It was a lot easier to download and play games while everybody else was asleep. I remember wanting to play games in the multiplayer mode of Bioshock 2, unreasonably good, but between my dodgy and games for Windows Live’s wild instability, only one in 10 matches would have low enough lag to make me a kill. I played in a single-speed modem between 2000 and 2005, because I were alone in a local neighborhood where sheep were the most dominant city in the United States. There were several variants of Soldier of Fortune 2 and Operation Flashpoint that were almost playable on UK servers. Unfortunately, my three-digit ping was so bad I started being drained up by the competition & wasn’t even in the midgame. Because apparently I’d been warping around like Leonard Nimoy. People can teach you the hardest player, and are able to play as teams, but they never teach you that to live for a chance. After starting at school, it’s a long time. Since I started working the game then I took the time to start the boot and realized that multiplayer games can’t be played in the uni’s proxy server. FFS. Tim Clark, Head of Marketing: It was time 2002 and the first time I had the e3 when high-speed internet became very popular, and video shows were still still available on CD. I thought it was a good idea to send everything back to the UK via a 56-k hotel, but since the CMS didn’t work remotely or anything insane. I remember it right now because I had to plug the cable into an external socket, as part of the main point was to make sure it was plugged in by a lamp socket, second the entire night again that one half dozen screenshots of Toby Gard’s Galleon were sent back again, and 3) on checkout, as a big bill raised a d.c. dollar, but after a few weeks, the hotel was charging me a g.c. I’ve written a letter and wrote down my expenses, but let’s say that the web site in question is not with us anymore. Jarred Walton, Tom’s Hardware Senior Editor: Are pre-internet BBSes count? The Commodore C-128 was in business when we bought it entirely new. That was in 1985. Included in the bonus was a 300 kilogram modem. I don’t even know how I found the information (my 11-year-old daughter was already a nerd), but as with some bulletin board systems, I couldn’t play basic text games. One of the most important things in my memory is that in art I have one image of the ASCII, at only about one minute per second. Another BBS was given the welcome picture with an estimated 200 lines of height, even though most computer screen (TVs) back then had just 40×25 characters. This saw the photo scroll past for more than two minutes. I only saw about one fifth each time. And yet, I still thought that was awesome. When we upgraded to a 2400-Break modem and the welcome page zipped by around 15 seconds, I was blown away. Those were very dangerous days. Tyler Colp, associate editor: My internet connection made 25 people dead once. I played World of Warcraft during the Burning Crusade expansion era. In Tempest Keep, I was one undead warlock as a group of 25 robbers attacked a sorcerer boss. She had that ability to implant the bomb on a person in the group who was randomly killed. We’ll keep up with our order and leave it off the place everybody else stands to let it damage more. The actual frequency of my internet in 2008 gave me a better idea, and a huge lag spike as soon as I was stamped with the bomb. All in the raid had disappeared. When I heard voicemail and scolding the voice, I suddenly heard a lot of screaming and scolding. All thankfully forgave me, but this moment still haunts me. Thanks for the internet.
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Mazer: Because I was in Australia, it’d be hard to name the best Internet connection I have ever had, but I prefer to be careful with the dial-up. It was slow, tidied up the telephone, and required you to pass the sound of a thousand demons receiving recreational tabasco enemas before going online, but also expensive. I would like to direct a friend’s computer so that we could play Street Fighter II on ZSnes, that was fun. There was some fun trying to look at naked ladies, so to put aside eight minutes of still image, it would be fun if I hadn’t had the patience. mainer: Worst ever could be back in the days of dialup as well as when I first came into PCs & gaming using AOL. That’s entirely unreliable. I may be connected for a few hours, or this could just drop the connection at any given moment. Since that time Warner Cable became Spectrum, and while download/upload speeds are reasonable and fairly steady, the customer service is a farce, and the monthly costs (84,99 dollars) rise to ridiculous levels. ZedClampet: My Comcast/Xfinity has broken down and had no problems, and in the meantime, when I stopped awaiting AT&T to install fiber, I ran into a hotspot on my Verizon phone. Unfortunately, there was a data limit, and this went very fast. After you hit the data cap, the hotspot went to ‘foremployee’ which is 3 KB. You could not use it anywhere related to gaming. Therefore, the internet stopped all online gaming, even the rare occasion when Xfinity was in working. After two days before ATT came out to put in a fiber, Comcast got their crap together and fixed that problem, but I’m glad to have been doing with them. They’re nightmares. Plus, I have faster internet now without a limit of money and pay $100 less a month. It was quite embarrassing to be still with them in the first place. Krud: Although it wasn’t technically my “worst internet connection” (since this would have been 2400 baud back in the early 90’s), I was stuck on 56k dialup WAY too long. Because we live in the DSL dead zone, though we could move two miles in one direction* and get DSL, and the cable internet was too rich for us to be burned in the middle of the day. (* – Not a full sun. With the help of everyone else enjoying broadband and digital downloads, I swear with my breath every time I bought a physical disc, that it needed to be updated online. The worst was when I bought Portal (yep, not by dial-up). Since I found out that I had to download just about two gIGABYTES from Steam, but it had to be single-player and wouldn’t have been used anymore. After this I arranged for someone else to lend the files to the / or someone else, rather than tie up our telephone for two or three days straight. (We also talked on a landline.) So yeah, I was a bit skeptical about the technology. We finally got the most value for the cable internet on our platform, and my tune really changed. But until now, I took it to my personal level even when gamers wanted a full-fledged internet connection. (Actually, I’m still annoyed when a single-player game insists that I be on the Internet or that I update, only on principle. I keep Steam off whenever it’s possible. While it looks like it still connects and update Steam, which is cheating if you ask me. Here, git off a lawn! Alright, I’m another with memories of dial-up. It would really annoy my best mate’s parents if we took the phone to play Doom (luckily for me, my Dad had a fax line), so we could only play until we were found out. In comparison to 1,6 MHz, 128 kHz sounded like a dream. Zloth: GEnie doesn’t actually count as a “internet”, so I suppose I’m the worst person I’ve had with the v100 emulation software. I didn’t really hurt my game. If the Empire, Hack, Zork, and DND need no bandwidth, it will be hard to recover, especially if all the people pick up the phone.
