Was thinking about this today, pretty unique time way back in my gaming past. Belonged to a clan that would play things like War Rock (old F2P game), Battlefield 2, early CoD games, etc.

It was really the only time I belonged to a gaming clan, and I remember (maybe through the lens of nostalgia?) having a great time with it. Someone was always on voice chat, I think we used TeamSpeak then switched to Vent, then finally Mumble?

I remember it being fairly small group, so everyone knew each other. There was also a really wide range of ages as well, so it was almost more like a strange family than a group of friends.

Just funny to think back, how frequently we all talked to each other, without ever having actually met in-person. Then it just kind of faded away slowly, I couldn't even tell you why / when I stopped.

Anyone else have similar experience / memories? Do you still belong to any gaming clans or guilds today (new or old)?

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[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I was in a counter-strike clan for a long time. We were all varying levels of dork. Clan members doubled as mods for our server, and we ran a server with classic rules and kept it tight. Almost always had a full server (12 people) between ourselves and the randos that joined our community. Spent soooo many hours bullshitting about our stupid teenage lives while headshotting each other. We had ventrilo, a old sql forum, and steam.

Everyone is still on steam friends but don't talk like we used to. None of us play counter-strike anymore after it moved to CS:GO, so we lost that common thread. I'm mainly focused on my WoW guild and community there now.

[–] detinu@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

CS 1.6 right? That game was the shit, so many good memories as a kid playing it all the time.

I'm happy I got to experience it at its peak, it was beautiful.

[–] NigerianPrince@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Enemy spotted!

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Same... 2 clans actually because eventually one collapsed and the remaining members were absorbed into another clan we'd been friends with...