>>715670586
People treat online gaming these days as if they're playing a botmatch and don't have any interest in recognizing the human factor behind the players, much less interact with them. Lots of games even have voice chat or other features disabled by default.

I get not always wanting to chat or use the mic but even ages ago, it was common for players to communicate with pre-made character voice keybinds (Z > 2 = Thanks!, C > 8 = Nice shot! Whatever + Whatevs = Go left!) which don't always exist anymore or aren't taken seriously because again - players don't have any interest in communicating in any fashion or being a team player.

It's antithetical to the point of playing an ONLINE game. The whole appeal used to be you could play with strangers from around the world and interact with strange and interesting people with different tastes, stories and skill levels.

>>715195887
the issue is that modern developers are stuck in the valley of despair.

>Decide to queue regular Gnoster to refresh myself the everdark sovereign variant
>No one kills parasites
>both teams up dead with 3 bars at 50% HP
>Have to solo it with a cold Nagakiba for 5 minutes
Welp I got what I asked for… it’s gonna be rough, isn’t it?