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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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[โ€“] ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I played a ton of StarCraft back in the day! I was never too serious about joining a clan (just dabbled), but I now remember some of the things you mentioned with the chat rooms, and clan "tags". I might be imagining it, but wasn't there also some way to set colors on letters in names too (holding down alt and pressing numbers or something...) That might have honestly been my first experience with "bots" for things adjacent to games.

Good memories, thanks very much for sharing!

[โ€“] Remmock@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I have no idea anymore, but I do distinctly remember some bots having red names instead of green.

Glad to bring that all back for ya.