LAN Parties

TooFaded

Has there ever been a successful LAN party or get together organized by a player that actually people showed up too? And I mean by 1 person or a few not by a large company that organized it.

If there was one in California (Southern) who would go?

THEREALDAG

< (+_+) > LANfest

AwfulFallout

SNSD gaming house

LizzyAOG

no biitches = no party

lol___Quack

< (+_+) >

Hello. I have had a few experiences with LANs in my day. Let me tell you about them.

For a LAN party to be any fun there has to be only one thing - people willing to have fun. The way < (+_+) > has structured LANs in the past is to have a 24 hour gaming orgy where we play games (CF mainly) for a long time.

However there are some hiccups in creating a great LAN party.

Generally people are very open to going to a LAN, but they are much less likely to host a LAN. Some of the barriers for people hosting LANs is the fact that one would be inviting people that have never been to that location before in their life. Inviting people over to a house or anywhere near personal property would be pretty daunting - especially if you have not played with those players for a long time and you don't really know them very well.

Another difficult task for hosting a LAN is scheduling. Trying to get a bunch of people in the same area to all be free at one time is a huge hassle and can take away a lot of the fun that would be going into the creation/planning of a good LAN party.

Refreshments are another concern for most LAN party hosts. A host must keep his guests fed and awake during the time that they are there. It is not off color to ask for participants to pitch in a few dollars for refreshments and pizza to munch on.

People have to travel to get to the LAN destination - keep that in mind. If you want a lot of people to come you should encourage players to carpool and make travel arrangements together.

Also keep in mind that LANs can be very loud at times. Especially when people are playing an intense match of tetris. Be sure to have the LAN where a lot of noise can be tolerated.

If you are honestly considering hosting a LAN I wish you good luck.

Final tip: if you are going to host a LAN - a Facebook group is a great idea and allows everyone to stay up to date and have a lot of communication for the coming event.

By the way: < (+_+) > will be hosting an east coast LAN during at some point during a college's typical Christmas break. I am going to try to have the festivities for at least one period of 24 hours if not a big 48 hour LAN (we will see). There is much more information that will be coming in but as of not it will be held in Doylestown PA. It is a closed LAN - only people who are invited may attend.

Dacbietelite

Yeah, I mean I have had a small lan with just my friends and I at my house, and we've played Lol and mw3. Besides that though, not sure what a large lan inviting people would be like.

tGxeNNNNN

awm___Quack wrote: »

Hello. I have had a few experiences with LANs in my day. Let me tell you about them.

For a LAN party to be any fun there has to be only one thing - people willing to have fun. The way < (+_+) > has structured LANs in the past is to have a 24 hour gaming orgy where we play games (CF mainly) for a long time.

However there are some hiccups in creating a great LAN party.

Generally people are very open to going to a LAN, but they are much less likely to host a LAN. Some of the barriers for people hosting LANs is the fact that one would be inviting people that have never been to that location before in their life. Inviting people over to a house or anywhere near personal property would be pretty daunting - especially if you have not played with those players for a long time and you don't really know them very well.

Another difficult task for hosting a LAN is scheduling. Trying to get a bunch of people in the same area to all be free at one time is a huge hassle and can take away a lot of the fun that would be going into the creation/planning of a good LAN party.

Refreshments are another concern for most LAN party hosts. A host must keep his guests fed and awake during the time that they are there. It is not off color to ask for participants to pitch in a few dollars for refreshments and pizza to munch on.

People have to travel to get to the LAN destination - keep that in mind. If you want a lot of people to come you should encourage players to carpool and make travel arrangements together.

Also keep in mind that LANs can be very loud at times. Especially when people are playing an intense match of tetris. Be sure to have the LAN where a lot of noise can be tolerated.

If you are honestly considering hosting a LAN I wish you good luck.

Final tip: if you are going to host a LAN - a Facebook group is a great idea and allows everyone to stay up to date and have a lot of communication for the coming event.

By the way: < (+_+) > will be hosting an east coast LAN during at some point during a college's typical Christmas break. I am going to try to have the festivities for at least one period of 24 hours if not a big 48 hour LAN (we will see). There is much more information that will be coming in but as of not it will be held in Doylestown PA. It is a closed LAN - only people who are invited may attend.

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the one this that has inhibited the lack of growth in the competitive community IMO is definitely the lack of LANS.