Bring back 1-player Portal server starts!

I don’t know how else to say this at this point:

Players figured out how to run 1-player servers with official rules not some broken XP farm garbage, just actual playable servers that didn’t require you to sit around waiting for 3 other people to exist.

And surprise surprise…

• Servers were active again!
• People were actually playing!
• You could jump in instantly instead of waiting in empty lobbies!
• Portal didn’t feel like a ghost town for once!

For a brief moment, it actually felt like someone at DICE accidentally made a good decision.

So what did they do?

They removed it, and nuked every other server there was that allowed this.

Like genuinely… what is the thought process here?

You finally have:

• Increased engagement!
• More active servers!
• Players coming back!

And your reaction is to shut it down?

The 4-player requirement to start a server is one of the dumbest design decisions tied to Portal.

And the craziest part?

We’ve already seen this work before.

BF2042 literally allowed 1-player server starts.

It worked. People used it. Portal had WAY more life because of it.

At this point, it honestly feels like every time the community fixes Portal for you, you step in and break it again.

Bring back 1-player server starts, and literally, stop acting surprised when Portal dies… again.