>>941351865
It's a bogeyman, kinda like everything /v/ blames for the degradation of gaming in the last decade or so.
Discord, zoomers, feminists, DEI, Blackrock, trannies, localizers, Steam, Sony, the entire US video game industry, China, Korea, whatever the fuck.
It's the most common cognitive bias of blaming everything but yourself, even though most of these things did influenced gaming in some ways people are quick to forgot how much of a rotten industry and medium gaming has been since its inception.
Imagine the fact that a lot of people here unironically thing we are in the worst era of gaming ever and totally discard the video game crash of 1983 where you had to pay 300$ adjusted for inflation for some garbage game that was either a space invaders clone or could be finished in 40 seconds top.
Gaming has always been egregious, arcade games were made endless and semi impossible to finish to eat as much coins as you could put into the cabinet, things like DLCs existed as far back in the Megadrive era, cover art used to be intentionally high effort to mask a terrible game before you could see screenshots for games on the internet or else.
Discord allowed for far easier way to form pugs in most shooters, but even before you used to rely on teamspeak anyway. Discord definitely ruined internet exchange but not as much as any other social media in general anyway, something that isn't specific to gaming.
