Every server of what? If you were on private central servers, like a UO shard, perhaps, because GMs were very active in the community, although shards I played would probably just tell you to block users you don’t like. Lots of games had just a lobby for matchmaking and you connected to the person hosting the match, lots didn’t even have chat outside the match, it was just a list of available games, and only moderation was if the person hosting cared. Stuff with central servers like Diablo/StarCraft… was there even who to complain to? Back in the day you didn’t like someone you blocked the person or joined another match instead of calling the cops.
Besides MMOs, you had Quake and other shooters. Games with player ran servers, thay very often had the owner of the server playing on it, if not other players with admin powers for it.
You weren’t banned from the game entirely, just the server.
Every server of what? If you were on private central servers, like a UO shard, perhaps, because GMs were very active in the community, although shards I played would probably just tell you to block users you don’t like. Lots of games had just a lobby for matchmaking and you connected to the person hosting the match, lots didn’t even have chat outside the match, it was just a list of available games, and only moderation was if the person hosting cared. Stuff with central servers like Diablo/StarCraft… was there even who to complain to? Back in the day you didn’t like someone you blocked the person or joined another match instead of calling the cops.
Besides MMOs, you had Quake and other shooters. Games with player ran servers, thay very often had the owner of the server playing on it, if not other players with admin powers for it.
You weren’t banned from the game entirely, just the server.