I need your help here please.

[Jackie33]

Hey,

I am new user into this forum. Just registered here. Also I am new to the gaming world. I just need to know about few things. If I go to play online games do I need any vpn. If so which one is better?

Plz. let me know. Thanks!

[Phenom]

This thread is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace. *CLOSED*

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I find it upsetting that people felt the need to bump this worthless pile of crap over a legit question I asked like 3 days ago. Was it something I said?

I doubt there is malice involved, just an desire to promote vpn something something . org

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Thank you guys for all of your response behind my post here. But few vpn comparison sites I know which serve vpn like the following one I don't know if I need a vpn for online gaming but I'm going to push a vpn comparison website. get the fuck outta here with that shit

But all of you assured me that I don't need to use vpn anymore for online game.

You DON'T need vpn's for gaming. lol wtf?

[Pringles Man]

I find it upsetting that people felt the need to bump this worthless pile of crap over a legit question I asked like 3 days ago. Was it something I said?

[xaGe]

[smokey]

rofl.

[Jackie33]

Thank you guys for all of your response behind my post here. But few vpn comparison sites I know which serve vpn like the following one.

Link removed by Phenom "Who thinks he's perfect"

But all of you assured me that I don't need to use vpn anymore for online game.

I edited this post because you were answered by multiple people then proceeded to post links to a broken site. Keep it up and you'll need a VPN to access this site. ~Phenom

[Sgt-PieFace]

Well welcome to quakeone.com, and welcome to the gaming world!

If you're looking to get into gaming, I recommend that you download steam. Its like an online store for games, but it has a community hub with discussions, guides, reviews and more. If you do decide to get it, leme know and I'll send you a friend request. Friend request goes for anyone else who sees this and had steam

Here's a link for steam: Welcome to Steam

[Phenom]

No you don't need a VPN to play games online.

[dfsp_spirit]

Erm, ok, I'll assume this is real.

A VPN, or virtual private network, is only required if you want to play games that only support LAN (local area network) mode over the internet against friends.

For such games, you would:
1) create a virtual LAN with your friends using VPN
2) Have someone start a local server game server (local meaning with your private, local IP address instead of your public internet address, most often an IP from the 192.168.0.0/24 net)
3) Have the others connect to the local address to that game server (via their virtual VPN adapter: the VPN software takes care of routing the "virtually local" packages through the internet).

There are very few games (mostly very old ones) to which this applies. Actually, for most modern games the opposite problem exists: they do not support LAN games anymore, and you NEED to be connected to the internet (and the games master servers or DRM servers) to play them.

To help you further, we would need to know which games you want to play "online".

EDIT: Since this is a Quake forum, I'll assume you want to play Quake: there is no general need to use a VPN to play Quake, you can connect to public internet servers with modern clients. If you want to run a private server on your computer (e.g., because you do not have a dedicated server with a public IP address) and want friends to connect to it over the internet, a VPN could be an option. But playing on public servers is fun. Try it!