Ahh, the days before games companies hired the casino slot machine UX designers. An elegant game from a more civilised age.
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Well we had mods and custom levels when we got tired of the official stuff.
We had mods. They’re a bit like skins and new content, only free and far more creative. They are what you call microtransactions today but you didn’t have to sell your right arm to get them because anyone could make them.
God I miss those times, it was all about skills. Cheating was also also extremely rare in CS (according to my memories) during the earlier 2000s. Loved that game
Really speaks to how fast culture is moving that people in their thirties have developed “kids these days” type attitudes.
I don’t think it was ever different, just that we are now part of that generation or exposed to it. The people in the 50s to 70s often had kids in the early to mid 20s of their life. So they were in teir thirties by the time the kids were teenagers, bringing all that new culture to clash with.