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I prefer single player games because I don't give a fuck about people and its more enjoyable for me to play single player games

Wait, one of the Reddit cartoonists knows about Lemmy.

Incidentally, this is how I play Overwatch. There's something so satisfying about explicitly not being able to directly communicate and having to use the built in chat and ping system.

Plus, abusive assholes can't spew toxicity at you when you're losing.

On a tangent, how do so many people not understand that if you're playing in a lobby that's appropriate to your skill you're going to lose half of your games? There's always that one asshole who can't ever lose or he word vomits all over his team.

You can't blame someone else's incompetence for your failure in single player games.

Unless it's one of those "hold the flashlight while bronze tier NPC with gun misses 90% of shots" sequences, which is way too common in early 2010s games. Damn you, Alan Wake.

I hate competitive multiplayer, but I like co-op. But since you have to pay to play online on console, I just stick with single player.

I stopped playing mutliplayer games as the ones I played were very reductive in the end.

I stopped playing solo games, mainly Minecraft and Factorio, because I cycle between happy and depressed and if depressed the solo games would enable me to wallow in depression to the point I am not eating or cleaning myself but I’ll walk 6 hours in MC to find carrot seeds.

Now i consume content and that sucks too.

I want to be able to jump on a game like Baldur's Gate 3 and try that hard fight I was thinking about and jump off again. I do not like multiplayer.

I used to like multiplayer a lot more than I do now and there are two main reasons why I don't like it very much anymore:

1. The games themselves all use developer owned servers that are not moderated except by hard coded rules handled by the software. It's not good enough to get rid of actual problem players and can be exploited to make things even worse by those same problem players.
2. All I ever hear coming through the mic are sexist, racist and homophobic comments from children who's voices are like nails on a chalkboard.

These days my primary multiplayer game is Elden Ring. No chat system (except on PS5 for some reason) and all I do is invade people to act like a mini boss.

Single player game it’s an experience like a book or a movie.

I wouldnt do this if it werent for the guys blasting music and yelling racist crap. Just my experience with the casual matches.