Say no to live services

Never understood the point of online multiplayer games. Gaming is what I do to escape from other people.

Besides if I want to get called a f****t, I’ll just kiss my husband in public.

Have never had any interest in playing multiplayer games, (except coop with actual IRL friends, which is obviously amazing)

Why would anyone want to play against strangers on the internet? Sounds just really stressful. No thanks

Word, my favorite way to game, it is peaceful

LOL, I have no talent. Every time I tried a multiplayer game, I immediately got turned off by the omnipresence of microtransactions and the hostility of the people on there who do nothing else with their time. What I have is the wisdom to recognize I don’t need that crap in my life.

Peaceful life.

Looks inside

God of WAR

As a single player enjoyer who mostly plays soulslikes and old school games it isn’t all that peaceful sometimes.

Singleplayer / local gamss are LOVELY, but I think we can have good multiplayer experiences too.

EDIT: Kernel level malware requirements and monolithic matchmakey server structures suck though. None of that.

When I was an awkward teenager without a way to just go across town, I played lots of games and risked using voice chat as a way to build my social confidence. I try really hard to be a positive and cooperative player though. I met more cool people than not.

For a while there, I think Deep Rock Galactic found a cool way to foster a cooperative community, it was designed really well for it. Sweaty tryhards who accuse you of the wrong meta play just about anything though.

One of my favorite recent experiences though is just playing the co-op defense mode in Titanfall 2. That is SO FUN.

I sucked at leveling in WoW because I mainly used it as a chat room once the grind kicked in. Never got to 60, but found a wife, so I’d call that a win. :)

We’re in a lonliness epidemic. Everybody is so depressed, friendless, and is simultaneously convinced they’re the only tolerable creature in a sea of imbeciles. (Social media and customer service jobs definitely exacerbated this.)

But…I dunno, I guess I’m just making the case multiplayer can be done right and bring us together. Eliminating private servers that could police their communities I think had a negative effect. That leaves community moderation to, what, Discords? Blegh.

And how MMOs now feel like grocery shopping at 3 AM, where everybody’s wearing headphones and hesitant to make eye contact. It’s sad.

Does a “Christian-run Battlefield 2142 server” sound silly? Maybe it does. But know what? Those people were nice to me and we had a great time.

Yeah I think playing pickup games in whatever e-sport live-service slop these days is gonna expose you to a lot of unnecessary toxicity, but I think we also need good multiplayer games more than anything else, to supplement our single player experiences, because people are losing their ability to connect and relate to each other on basically every level.

People move away from each other. They get busy. They’re afraid to talk to strangers but suddenly everybody’s a stranger. It sucks.

…and it’s literally killing us.

Thanks for reading my unintentional article. Lol

I think of Guild Wars 2 as an intersection between the two. I basically play it as a single player game. The only social content I engage in is open world group events, and then I go back to being a loaner when they’re over.

I’m hoping Guild Wars 3 uses the same formula.

Got the Hades games for $12, they are my current jam.

Excellent choice of games. 10 out of 10 no notes.

advantage of single player games is:
No need to deal with matchmaking (especially if its shit)
No need to wait for any server to fill up (usually most games they are 24/7,but for smaller servers or you dislike the matchmaking it’s annoying)
Lower chance of P2W microtranscations.
Am not gonna say this is a good or bad thing: Microtranscations.
The advantage of multiplayer games:
Replayablity.
(In-built) Communication(via VC or Text chat)

I stopped play league of legends after Vanguard started requiring changing some things in BIOS, but there werent tutorial how to do this on my motherboard. This game doesn’t even support Linux. LOL

Did you seriously make an new alt account to repost something you already posted a month ago in two other gaming communities?

Are you also The Picard Maneuver, one of the only other accounts only posting mid memes in the Gaming communities?