Is it even possible to make friends through gaming now? We all live online anyway

dumb frogposter

Yea I got back into gw2 joined a community and made some friends I'm fairly close with now about 9 months ago. It's not that hard you're just retarded.

If you're playing a modern shooter with a matchmaking system: no. You need a dedicated server to act as a waterhole for people to meet frequently or you'll break the ice with anyone.

>>713959354 (OP)
I just pretend my likeminded friends are on /v/. We all like cooming and hot anime girls like Stellar Blade

>>713959354 (OP)
Why is pepe hanging by a single testicle

>>713959674
That's wojak

>>713959354 (OP)
Not on the same level as back when it was still cool and novel to talk to strangers all over the world in games, along with online censorship being far less strict back then. It can still happen, but those chances are extremely low now, especially for making good friends.

>>713959747
>>713959674
It's crungo though?

I met three people in Sea of Thieves open crew total strangers that have become very very good friends of mine and one of them just sent me a 4070 graphics card so we could play together better. You just need to find people who want to do similar stuff in games as you.

>>713959851
>one of them just sent me a 4070 graphics card
everything about this sentence tells me that the poster is a woman

first roastie indication: guys on the internet sending expensive luxury goods for no reason

second roastie indication: calls it a "4070 graphics card" (clearly has a loose/casual understanding of technology common only to roasties)

third roastie indication: plays a casual consoleslop PvE game

anyway the men sending you expensive things online want to fuck your crusty blown-out hole. probably best to get an actual job

>friends
uh honey sweetums you're supposed to isolate yourself in your dark room with no friends until you become the villain

>>713959674
it's a reference to that shock image in the past of a guy doing it in real life

>>713959591
Basically this, matchmaking pretty much killed the vibes all around. That said, I'm hoping dedicated servers will become prominent again once developers start to value their players. I know it sounds far fetched but I really do think the next generation of developers will learn from the mistakes of the past 15-16 years

>>713960496
>matchmaking pretty much killed the vibes all around
post the pic

>>713960173
Holy cope. I'm a white man which you are probably not nigger. And sea of thieves is not a pve game. I probably make way more money than you do and I get free gifts from friends online jealous faggot.

>>713960496
shareholders and publishers arent going to disappear or become less gay. the next generation of devs would have to be highly motivated indies who arent just going along with a trend. ai game dev tools better start kicking ass out of nowhere.

I'd love to meet some friends and maybe a gf online but I don't think it's gonna happen as I feel so disconnected from people. /blog

yeah you're not meeting anyone that will become a real irl friend or gf online, I've learned, just passing online "friendships"

>>713959591
To abstract this to another level, dedicated servers provided two crucial things: downtime was spent next to other players, and continuity. If you die, you've got 10-20 seconds to respawn where you can't do much but talk. Odds are you might say something to someone. That someone might be there tomorrow. Rubbing elbows with people like this over longer periods of time lets you unconsciously filter people that you'd like to spend more time with.

The same difference is visible when you look at planetside 1 and it's sequel. In the first game the gameplay loop was a bit rough, and you had to spend 15 minutes guarding a control console whenever you were capturing a base. Sometimes this happened after you managed to blow up the enemy's spawnroom. In the sequel, it simply played more like domination with fixed, invincible spawns. Unsurprisingly the game had much less social interaction in that version.

I haven't played WoW, I was late but learned it also simply wasn't for me, but I recall hearing how the world seemingly got a lot less populated once they rolled out automatic dungeon finding. The fucked up thing is that you just know some part of the playerbase would ask for features like this. You can't really blame them, but it's exactly like that quote. Given the chance, players will optimize the fun out of the game.

I'm brazilian and I'm friends with an Alabama racist motherfucker that I met playing competitive in Overwatch 2. Fun guy. He was talking shit to me because I live in Commiefornia and I my accent is strong and shitty, but I didn't get mad and I was chill because he was making fun not about me but Brazil itself, he respected and now we play HOTS and OW2. Our hate towards Jews made us bnet homies.