Thread 717586789

why did you stop playing multiplayer games?

>>717586789 (OP)
Because nowadays they don't offer anything cool or unique. Now I just play one until I think "OK I'm getting bored now"

Games launch with fuck all maps now, fuck all cool weapon unlocks due to metafaggots screeching and limiting everything to just 2 weapons, I don't give a shit about skins or very small seasonal map changes.

You can say what you want about the old cawadooty and halo games, but they at least had
>multiple viable weapons and classes, not just centering the balance of what the metafags demand
>maps released in a timely manner to keep things fresh.

We don't get that anymore. We get one AR that kills everything in 0.5 second spray and maybe a sniper rifle (MAYBE, most games now just make the aforementioned AR a laser beam that can shoot across maps). We get like 4 maps at launch and maybe another 2 in a years time. oh but skins? Yes sir we get 80 of them per week!

The last multiplayer game I put a lot of time into was the fucking death note one. That shows you the state of this industry.

>>717586789 (OP)
I play them till comp/meta niggers ruin them. If one comes out and looks fun I'll invest a good 30 hours until the no lifes start sweating and the fun is ruined. This nigger makes a great point
>>717587152
You can make a fun multiplayer game (see: titanfall 2) if your team actually cares and trys to make everything balanced. That way the very loud vocal minority of compfags will have to adapt because they cant just learn the meta which consists of 2 weapons, which in turn means casual players can have fun trying out many different strategies.

>>717586789 (OP)
I don't know
I just don't find them fun anymore

>>717586789 (OP)
>why did you stop playing multiplayer games?
Heavy handed moderation when it stopped being me and the bro's or me and a to be bro and a wannabe mommy started leaning over all our shoulders and policing fun it became shit.

>FPS: too many sweats and try hards
>fighting games: see above
>ASSFAGGOTS: also above
>dead by daylight: again, above.
>hero shooter: oh boy! Above again!

The only multiplayer games I enjoy nowadays are "friendslop" core and PVE. Least with those you don't see the top 10 player screeching on his twitch channel with 20k views about how the devs need to buff his favourite character/hero/weapon and nerf the one that he refuses to learn how to play against. And this faggot always gets his own way.

>>717586789 (OP)
I didn't stop
I just enjoy them with my friends
if I'm playing on my own I play single player games, as simple as that

>>717586789 (OP)
Right-wing morons on chat

I still play them but none have lasting power. Basically what the anon at the top of the thread said. Back in the day you'd get offcial new maps and weapons almost monthly. Now? You'd be lucky to see that once a year except a huge trash pile of glow in the dark avatars and skins.

Last GOOD multiplayer game I played that remedied this was helldivers 2. Those boys were doing a great job at adding new shit every week or so (not just skins) and then they decided to hire jeets who's design principle was to nerf everything into the ground.

random people are fags

I have more fun putting myself into the shoes of an ancient hero who is tasked with killing a god (single player) than I do playing 2 hours a week of a game where I get stomped on by a chink who's either hacking or investing 19 hours per day into the game (multiplayer)

randoms are kinda boring to play with now, idk how anyone makes friends online these days. everything just feels so much less socialable and i feel like i lucked out on the people i've met through multiplayer games

>>717586789 (OP)
The only time I ever play multiplayer games is to hang out and have fun with friends. And even then, it's rarely competitive shit and more co-op oriented. This has always been the case for me, though. Having fun with friends is a valuable experience to me, just as playing a really good single player game can be. The least fulfilling approach to gaming for me that I can fucking think of is bothering to solo queue multiplayer shit or otherwise play with randoms.

>>717586789 (OP)
Incessant metagayming and matchmaking completely and utterly destroyed multiplayer. If you never experienced multiplayer where you had community driven servers or when you had to hop on IRC, custom sites etc to find another team for a little comp match, you just don't know what was lost. It was something special but streamlining it all ruined the communities that would form around games.

Back in the day
>hop on one of your favourite servers
>"Hi anon, welcome back, let's pwn these n00bs"
>All sorts of assorted but friendly banter, people having a good time
>Try do to some new tactic or setup
>People are impressed if it works
>Even if it fails, people would discuss it and maybe try again with alterations
>Play for hours, able to activate roll votes on maps/mechanics
>Plenty of admins swing by, occasionaly do some wacky shit with them like low grav etc

Nowadays
>Click matchmaking
>nobody says anything
>match starts
>barking commands
>do this meta, do that meta thing
>Try do something new
>people rage at you for not doing the metathing
>people rage at you even if you do the metathing but the other team is slightly better
>salt everywhere because of rating and faux progression systems (no more the player gets better, not the character)
>nobody really communicates outside of the bare necessity (there's that one fun guy in 1 out of a 1000 matches that actually banters)
>game ends, everybody fucks off with or without a salty GG

>>717588073
I remember back in the 360 and ps3 game you'd be getting friend requests out the fucking wazoo. Didn't matter if you played like shit, played amazing, had a mic or didn't have a mic everyone was always adding eachother and messaging eachother if they wanted to play.

Nowadays? That doesn't happen. Microsoft and Sony even included mics with the series X and ps5, everyone's talking. Just nobody wants to be friends and rarely talks. Same shit on steam, back in like 08 everyone would be friends but now it rarely happens.

People who play singleplayer are retarded fags
>hey jimmy wanna play ball with us?
>no thanks I'm playing ball by myself!
Just total fags

>>717588467
I'd refute this but you're most likely a child so there is no point in arguing.

>>717588362
>>717588073
Blame zoomers. The pandemic taught them how to be socially awkward freaks so now the only socialising they do is during group gooning sessions on discord.

>>717586789 (OP)
I haven't found a multiplayer game I enjoy enough to stick with.

>>717588467
>hey jimmy wanna play ball with us?
>no jimmy what are you doing you have to use the ball exactly like this!
>C'mon jimmy, you need to play on our exact skill level so you can never truly improve or learn from betters
zoomers are fucked in the head

>>717588692
>heh, playing with other people is so overrated, I'm playing by myself!
Do soilennials really?

>>717587152
>dev no longer make maps or interesting game-types
>all effort is put into cosmetics and battlepasses
>minimal voice chat, everyone hides in a safe space discord
>obvious bots filling out games
>dailies/weeklies make the game feel more like a chore than engaging and fun

>>717588467
The amount of mouth breathers is simply unbearable.

>>717588692
More like
>hey jimmy wanna play ball with us?
>no jimmy what are you doing you have to use the ball exactly like this!
>C'mon jimmy, you need to play on our exact skill level so you can never truly improve or learn from betters
>OK Jimmy now you gotta join or discord server.
>Jimmy you gotta! Or else you can never play ball with us again!
>OK nice job Jimmy! Now meet our friends from the server. They never play but they wanna talk to you
>this our server admin, lilith! She's trans and she really wants to show you pictures of interacial porn and teach you how to masterbate!

>>717588357
This is what people who never played games during early 2000's actually believe.

>>717589223
Fucking kek.

I go to bed at 9pm, my dirtbag friends start later than that

>>717589223
jimmy truly did nothing wrong

>>717586789 (OP)
Because as I got older and started to do other shit with my life and get tired, the last thing I want is to deal with random people in my hobby

>>717588073
I think it just might be that you have grown up. Like I made very good friends over GMOD and source games in the past but as of now I can't imagine doing that.

>>717588073
I still play games with people ive met almost 2 decades ago online, but trying to find new people today? impossible. nobody uses in game chat or voice, nobody wants to communicate at all. I swear these faggots treat games as a job rather than something to have fun with and it shows. Doesn't help that fucking everything is recorded in game now and can be used to fuck you over.

Nofriends and most I find unappealing and the ones I do I hit a skill ceiling and cant git gud enough anymore to justify the wall headbanging.

>>717586789 (OP)
Always been quite bad at high intensity pvp games. Usually play them for the sake of my friends or to try out something unique. I just get overstimulated too quickly and lose focus.

>>717589685
sometimes I boot up friendslop games like phasmophobia or repo and play with randoms and I have a pretty good times
the problem while we're having a lot of fun in the game there's no friendship that can form since they're... well... normalfags

>>717589247
because its true you baiting faggot

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i play rocket league and contractors VR (mostly star wars mod) regularly.
and lots of co-op stuff with friends like EDF or PlateUp or whatever else is currently interesting us

>>717586789 (OP)
>Lush forest
>Walk 100 meters
>Suddenly turns into a savanna.
>Conveniently placed mountain ranges.

>>717589247
>Saw the release of Quake
>Saw Starcraft
>Witnessed how HL reshaped FPS
>Played the CS beta versions
>Played almost every goldsource mod under the sun
>Had to use IRC, ICQ, Gamespy to get around
>Anon claiming it's all a fantasy
How about you fuck off zoom zoom

>>717590848
and now you sit in offline mode on steam to hide from your 5 steam friends

>>717590936
I still play co-op with friends but there's no way I'm touching matchmaking competitive horseshit games with fake ass progression systems (purely designed to get you hooked or induce FOMO) and skin buying jewery. Never turn on offline mode neither. Online games nowadays are purely designed around engagement, skill ceilings are lowered across the board for the sake of microtransactions (wouldn't want players dropping out) and everything is designed to be as flashy and twitchy as possible to get you to buy skins. Long gone are the days of smooth, intricate movement and shooting systems with carefully constructed maps. It's all low TTK twitchy ADS gameplay from here on out. Some exceptions still remain but they are exceedingly rare.
I'm willing to bet you have a racing gayming chair and a rig full of RGB cancer too, summer child.

>>717586789 (OP)
I would love for there to be more co-op pve type games, I'm just tired of pvp

>>717591402
All of this to say your mediocre strafe jumping skills have no place in modern triple A slop. Keep whining bro. Never adapt and blame everybody else.

>>717591824
>strafe jumping skills have no place
At least something we can agree on, it has to be adapted for console players in any case. Nice move calling the games you are here defending slop, btw. Go watch the pretty RGB lights instead of posting next time faggot.

>>717592141
Oh wait so you're the kind of scrubs that never got good at the so called games you venerate so much? Never learned timing bhop in HL/CS? Never learned how to strafejump in Q3? Never pushed your micro to the limit in SC?
I didn't defend the triple A trash that comes out, simply stated that those skills are useless in those games.
I find it very amusing you post an image of doom like it means anything. Singleplayer faggots were shunned in the mid 2000s.
It's always the same garbage with retards like you. You only played the popular shit at the time, never actually good at those games and think you're hot shit full of wisdom.

I get enough of having to deal with people in real life. I just want my private quiet time with my videogames.

>>717586789 (OP)
>why did you stop playing multiplayer games?
Too sterile and the irl-ification of ingame worlds is disgusting, there's no difference between playing a multiplayer game and going out irl, you have to watch what you're saying, you have to be careful with people because they're much more sensitive today than 20 years ago, there's reporting systems, there's skill based match making, there's gameplay that's crafted to appeal to everyone meaning it appeals to no one, the visual design has changed to appeal to women first and foremost and the pricing just doesn't match the fun the game provides.

If it's f2p it's usually a bore to play unless you shell out cash to have "fun" but spending money and if it's a b2p then it's sterile and unfun. I don't play video games to go out irl, i play video games to unwind, if i go into your game and it's the same as going out to a party or a social venue, then what's the point of playing your game? i'm probably better off going out and pretending i love other people's company.

They stopped being multiplayer. You can find a thriving guild and 80% of the activity is on their Discord, of which 90% isn't game related.

I only play Tarkov, and I've died to alot of cheaters recently which is making me quit till later this year.

As for normal MP shooters, honestly not interesting or intense enough. Tarkov does it for me in a way where I can't get into random "fight for land for 30 minutes" like a Battlefield game.

>>717588467
You're the kind of nigger who goes "I DONT WANNA TYPE ALL DAY, GET ON VOICE HAHA", unable to formulate a single sentence that isn't full of memes, buzzwords and calls to how superior you are. Playing.. Siege? Apex?

I stopped playing WoW because of how cancerous the community was.

I was one of the best tanks on my server in one of the best guilds and I fucking hated it. I liked the idea of being the best and getting the best gear before anyone else, but I hated everything else about it. I hated how it felt like a second job. I hated how serious everyone took the game. My most memorable moments in WoW weren't from raiding and playing with the "friends" I knew from my guild, but from leveling alts and playing with randoms and doing dungeons with them as well as casual PVP encounters or pub battlegrounds. They were infinitely more fun.
About when I started to realize how much I hated almost every aspect of serious raiding, those aspects started to leak into the rest of the game. By that point, everyone had a DPS log addon, everyone was posting their times to third party websites which logged your times and other stats through third party programs. Even public groups started to request times and achievements and that escape from raiding with my guild became less and less common.

That experience basically ruined my entire outlook on online games. Especially multiplayer co-op games.
Nowadays I basically only play single player games.

>>717586789 (OP)
never started

>>717586789 (OP)
i have no friends to play them with anymore

>>717592382
I don't even know what kind of mental gymnastics you used to get those these pitiful insults. I just agreed that strafe jumping and equivalent old staple skills have turned useless. Because those games used to be somewhat PC exclusive with maybe a port or a spin-off title for consoles. But now everything has to be homogenised for console players where you can't pull the most basic strafe jump. It all got replaced with sliding gimmicks that have no depth whatsoever. I'm willing to bet you can't even clear bridge to rail in Q3DM6 or even now what it is.
And for the record, I'm just posting random pictures moron. Lastly, singleplayer wasn't shunned because we had absolute bangers on that front too. I don't know what kind of messed up timeline you come from.

>>717586789 (OP)
I'm at the point in my life that I only want to play multiplayer games. I've played so many games at this point I've experienced pretty much everything any video game could offer me. Now I just want to have experiences with other people. Sadly I only have 1 real friend but our opinions on games don't match at all so we end up hardly ever playing shit. I've been begging him to play Nioh 2 with me for the longest but he keeps telling me he will but never does. I never have any issue playing anything he wants but he acts like playing anything I want is some massive issue. Also any time we play a game he wants to play he'll play it like once for 3 hours then NEVER touches it again. It really sucks. Sometimes I want to cum in his mouth and suck it through his ass, the little fag.

>>717586789 (OP)
Capitalists turned them all into participation ceremonies instead of the competitive games that they once were. It's far more profitable for them to manipulate people into believing they are good at the game, so they continue coming back and paying for microtransactions and DLC. Modern FPS games have literally turned into people running around with legal aimbots, EOMM that rigs the outcome of the match so people can take turns winning and losing equally, and spawn points and maps that allow bad players to randomly appear behind other players for easy kills. Everyone is a winner, unless you actually like video games.

>>717587308
>meta niggers
Meta niggers are free kills, because they do exclusively play by color/number taught to them by e-grifting parasocialites on twitch/youtube. They don't think, they mimic.
>comp niggers
You mean people who organize and optimize their groups? Why don't you just find friends or start your own groups, faggot?

In my book performative gaymers and human locausts are to blame for all lasting damage: either they cry about things they evidently don't understand, or about the game not being like the last game they've played, and bully developers until they get their will. Then they leave the game that has been mechanically eviscerated to jump onto the next to repeat the process.

>>717586789 (OP)
I thought they were a meme back when I had a PS2. I still think they're a meme. I know I'm wrong but It's funny to think I'm right.
That said, I had some fun helping people out on Atlyss and I though RoA2 was fun when I tried it out, so I might eventually play more online games.

>>717593067
I'm glad I never allowed myself to raid in MMOs. I would hit level cap and level another character. I have nothing but fond memories of MMOs, mostly things like you said, spending time with buddies or getting into ganking spats with other players.

>>717586789 (OP)
I used to be a bit obsessed about ranked systems and the idea of grinding and gitting gud. Like back in the day I used to idolize Korean StarCraft pros. I'm a bit upset that I never reached an "elite" rank in any game I played, I always reached the ranks equivalent to Diamond, I could be considered a tryhard enthusiast but I always lacked the discipline and nerve management to be able to grind and improve further.
I'm 30 now. I played Marvel Rivals for a bit because of the buzz, but then learnt about the matchmaking systems, and how negative winrates can give you the highest rank, so I became disillusioned and stopped. Seems like many games push for that kind of matchmaking nowadays, even fighting games.

Deep inside me I still want to "improve" at a game and reach a challenger-like rank, but I know it's a retarded goal to have at my age, and I don't feel passion nor love for any specific game nowadays. Back in the day I should've just sticked to one instead of jumping to trends. I lowkey wish I kept playing SC2.
I'm open to game suggestions that might motivate me to actually do competitive grinding, although I'll probably eventually get into chess again, which I think is more respectable and less childish

>>717588073
Being a good player attracts other good players (that is: NOT metafags, but people who think and navigate the game without parasocial third-party assistance), which in 7/10 cases are anons. The greatest issue with multiplayer is moderation, followed closely by the fact that 95% of all players should be counted towards the NPC total of any game (which is why they can't handle banter and, as if programmed to, report any 'wrongthink').

>>717586789 (OP)
>why did you stop playing multiplayer games?
I didn't, but the fact that nowadays every time you write something in chat, you have a 50% chance of having your money stolen has removed all joy of the game being multiplayer to begin with.
At that point, if you're barred from socializing in the game, what's even the point of making a multiplayer game?

>>717586789 (OP)
The day you stop playing multiplayer games is the day you stop being a man

>>717592658
Text chat is totally insufficient for multiplayer games that aren't just casual moshpits. Just unmute your mic no-one gives a fuck what you sound like you self-absorbed retard

>>717595831
i second this

>>717595831
>>717596908
I don't give a shit about what a 40 year old MTX buying bald faggot thinks is a "man".
You're probably fatter than WingsofRedemption

The day you start playing multiplayer games is the day you stop being a man

>>717595764
If you're losing money from chatting, you're retarded and deserve it lmao

>>717591402
>It's all low TTK twitchy ADS gameplay from here on out.
It's like you're complaining that modern games make a more demand of your cognitive resources than in the past.

>>717595831
I would have agreed with this maybe even ten years ago. Companies have feminized the genre. If you want to partake in the beauty pageant, that's fine, but I wouldn't call it manly.

>>717597360
I was always a woman then and I've always been better than you at video games. A grown man got beat by a woman lmao

>>717595831
>Multiplayer Game
>Same lobby full of screaming children and obese faggots
>Same match
>Same outcomes
>Same bitchtalk

Habibi, I'd started with CS 1.6 and played right up to PUBG. When you realize that you're older than 90% of the people in the lobby by a wide margin, it's time to hang it up. I play Mario Kart with my son when I'm on business trips and that's it.

>>717597690
I agree with your sentiment towards old n slow fags, but then you realize that modern "twitchy" games all have built-in aimbots

>>717586789 (OP)
When it became clear matchmaking replaced servers so they can put you against bots and act like it's a legit game.

>>717593067
There's a strong pattern where WoW players become desensitized with all games.

>>717597924
> I was always a woman
Acceptance is the first step towards the cure, xer/xim.

>>717598025
Yea many do but even casual modes like wild rift on mobile (a moba) with all its automatic skillshots and all that is ridiculously difficult at higher levels of gameplay.
This is why the ladder is important and it's valuable to climb and stay there for people that like to test their skills and improve.

Anyway games truly improved, not all of them, they became more difficult not more creative or more complex.

>>717586789 (OP)
I didn't stop, I just play with friends.

>>717597673
Bro, people have been banned from games for having a literal empty folder with the "new folder" name and for writing "looking for group", hell, you can even be fucking banned for being too bad at playing the game, or for putting a kim jong un sticker in you're car.

>>717594998
>I played Marvel Rivals for a bit because of the buzz, but then learnt about the matchmaking systems, and how negative winrates can give you the highest rank, so I became disillusioned and stopped. Seems like many games push for that kind of matchmaking nowadays, even fighting games.
they got that from mobile games with matchmaking

>>717586789 (OP)
Me and everyone I used to play with all grew up and are now waging at different hours, so we never get to hang out anymore

>>717598154
I accept your concession

>>717586789 (OP)
Because I moved out into the woods in 2019, and only had viasat.
And after getting gigabit fiber in 2023, nothing sounds to play online anymore.

>>717598341
Funny fairy tales, Ivan. Time to go to sleep.

>>717588073
>dk how anyone makes friends online these days
You don't, that died with dedicated servers

>>717596804
>compfag
figures

>>717598341
I quit wow close to a decade ago because everyone in chat was writing HAIL ISIS as a meme and I wrote it as well. They've banned me for three days and forced me to rename my character as well.
Told the GM that If he's not unbanning me and reverting my name I'll quit all my accounts (had multiple with active subs) and I'll never return, he said no so I just did that lol.

>>717586789 (OP)
WoW's terrain has too many mountains. not realistic

>>717586789 (OP)
i was always single player, except for mahjong.