Exploring Free vs $50 Dead Games

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Communities like War of Rights giving that new player, who is also a kid, a chance like that will let the experience stick with the kid in a positive way. Shout out to them for being patient and just having fun.

Funny how the smaller the community, the less players playing, the more wholesome that community is. The sweaty tryhards, hackers, cheaters and trollers have all moved on and all that is left are the people that really care. Thank you for shining a spotlight on all these forgotten/dead games:)

War of rights is very much alive during prime time EST hours. A near full server everyday.

Meeting people in this type of games give the same feeling as making friends with other kids in the park as a child.

That ship game seemed so wholesome, like you all saying goodbye made me sad lol

If you're interested in joining a private event in War of Rights that takes place during EU-friendly hours, try looking into the Grand Campaign event that happens every Saturday at 3PM EST

When you enter a dead game, you can just get a sort of feeling like they were all once at a time at their golden days. Kinda sad that most games will either be forgotten or dead at some points. Time is merciless but memories are always there to stay.

That sub game is really cool. I feel like the potential there is very untapped. Too bad the developers aren’t working on it. Like I could imagine VR being sick in that.

Rye is quickly becoming one of my favorite youtubers. I basically sit in limbo, patiently waiting for his next "dead games" upload.

Reign of Kings has extensive history. My older brother and sister LOVED the game, and played together almost every day. I used to watch them play all the time until slowly the devs ended up making a lot of questionable changes, doing nothing against cheaters, and ultimately abandoning the game for another project (which they'd soon also abandon). The devs have a huge history of this strange behavior and there's a couple videos on them and what they've gotten up to.

11:38 Legend has it, they are still dueling to this very moment.

sub rosa being on here breaks my heart. i've never played it but watching videos and streams of people playing it was tons of fun. criken's streams of the game where he plays with his friends and get into shenanigans were some of my favorite streams i've ever watched

if sub rosa was even just 5 dollars it could have a massive resurgence

If you want a great free dead game, check out Dirty Bomb. It had so much potential and I was sad to see it die. The game has no way to put real money into the game, so you have to grind to unlock new characters and load outs which is probably what killed it. But I still love hopping on for a few games every month or so.

I grew up playing Day of Defeat, I had my own realism clan and server when I was 14-16, at the time there were a bunch of military servers that you could just join and start making rank. We had a ranking structure and everything, we would have drills, award ceremonies, training, and battles vs other units.

man the old DoD loading screens took me back so much, i played that probably 6-8 hours a day at least when it came out as a kid. Wish it was as good as it used to be

15:11 the duality of man

I spent around 400 hours in Sub Rosa from 2017 to 2022. Very fun game when its not dead, the day they came out with the a 64 player server was crazy. I have yet to play a game that has some of the gameplay mechanics and social aspects that Sub Rosa had. There was a longtime community of regulars, but they slowly one by one stopped playing the game. Additionally it had a healthy modding scene and the game allowed anyone to mod any weapon, sound effect, item prop, character, or car model to one of the models found on the Sub Rosa Modding discord. And you could still join a regular server with other players that weren't modded and things would only be changed for you. Made things a lot more unique after so much time spent. Its sad that a game that's so unique and enjoyable when populated died, and I hope more Youtubers make videos about it to breathe a bit more life into it.

The fact that Rye fell in love with WoR is so wholesome. I backed the game a few years before it showed up on steam and by that time I'd switched jobs and the friends at my previous job that I WAS going to play this with dipped, so I struggled to get into it.