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thats simply not true brother.  They don't even need to ditch dedicated servers to control the data.   They can give us servers with full capabilities,  except stopping that information for example.  Thats what ISP routers do nowadays that you literally have full control over.  They stop you now from blocking a certain port and a certain process, that in the past you could manually block.       But I lived it,  I was there.   in counterstrike and quake days you always had ddos attacks.  But they could be mitigated for cheap.   Its when they got too strong for even some ISP's that it became unfeasible man,  so people just stopped hosting servers.  Why pay money for a server when your isp can't stop it lagging or going offline after you ban someone...  lol.   Or when they start charging you more money to do so because it becomes so frequent.   These 15 yr old kids destroyed a whole industry brother.  Maybe they have the whole industry scared I dunno.  in 2013 they took battlenet off for 3 days lol.     But   It was not some grand conspiracy,  we call them booter kids.  The FBI knows who they all are.   James Comey always turned a blind eye to it,  because they were mostly minors at the time.    unless you argue the video game developers were behind the server attacks themselves lmao.  But the truth is the video game companies don't want to be in the business of hosting tournaments that is a community run thing.  They are interested in creating and developing games,  the e-sports of quake and cs were simply natural side affects.      But they are woke companies and so if they are running it,  we have to deal with them literally destroying sports as we know it.  The reason they don't show stats,  the reasons we don't have a server browser,  is because they think they are protecting people this way from attacks,    they also think noone gets left out from playing this way.  And its not a money thing for them,  its literally an ideological one.    and I don't blame them for thinking that,  that is how infested gaming has always been. Its human nature we are dealing with.    But it does more harm than good,  because it is sacrificing themselves by sacrificing the general playerbase literally to defend a few bad apples to not risk the cost of a few innocent.   But if they no longer exist,  there is no game to begin with.  We call that suicidal empathy.