[ SECRET POST #3194 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3194 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

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Image: Screencap of Judith from Le Visiteur du Futur with captions " (Judith) -Friendless people. / (Raph) -That's so sad."

The continued rise of multiplayer and social media tied gaming makes me a bit disappointed.
There are still games I can enjoy alone, but my friends don’t play the same things. Asking them to isn’t a good idea. And online just doesn’t suit me. Oh well.

Re: Transcript by OP

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, oui, c'est Judith! I was wondering if it was.

[(Anonymous)]

The whole reason I play video games is so I don't have to talk to people for a while. No way am I playing online multiplayer!

I'm with you, OP. It doesn't suit me either.

[(Anonymous)]

Why isn't it a good idea? I mean... they're your friends, they're not going to bite your head off just for asking, are they?

[dethtoll]

I can relate. I was stuck on very slow internet for a long time, which made playing multiplayer games online pretty much a non-starter for the first few years of the 2000s, back when games like Counterstrike and the like were taking off. So I stuck to singleplayer, even well after I got faster internet, and I didn't really get into multiplayer until I discovered Day of Defeat.

(Poured hours into that, lol... I miss it!)

[(Anonymous)]

I was just watching a trailer for the new Zelda Triforce Heroes game, in which three people play together. You don't have to buy three copies if the game to play, but it looks like it would be tiresome in places if you're a single player.

There's a good reason games companies want us to multiplayer and its called increased software sales. £50 game times three is £150. Not hard to see why they're pushing it at us increasingly.

It does mean that those of us who don't have gaming friends, or just friends who are into different games than we are, increasingly feel like games are excluding us, and that can be lonely.

[(Anonymous)]

After several harassment incidents and one stalker, I no longer play multiplayer online games at all. And there's a reason why most of the female players are pretending to be male.

[diet_poison]

Can I ask what games/platforms? I'm not going to tell you you could have avoided it or should have been playing something else or anything like that, I'm actually just curious because I used to read a lot more about this than I have recently and it seemed to be concentrated in specific areas. also, some people really suck. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so sorry to hear that.

I always pretended to be male as well, and then just gave up entirely on online multiplayer games. I didn't get any direct hassle, but the atmosphere was so ugh. Some guys would say all kinds of shit about women, and though they were a minority the other guys rarely told them that they were out of order, so the comments just hung there unchallenged, like poison. There becomes a critical mass at which it's no longer fun.

Good luck with your local play.

[forgottenjester]

I feel you, OP. I feel you.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no opinion on this secret, but JUDITH!

[fishnchips]

I just really wish there were more co-op rpg games instead of tons of mmorpgs. Diablo 3 was fun mainly because I could play it with a friend. Mmos have too many strangers I'm not interested in interacting with and I think seeing all those silly usernames all the time kind of kills the atmosphere.

[(Anonymous)]

Video games are something I do to destress by myself, so I really have no interest in playing with other people online regularly. I don't need other people nagging me to get online, harassing me, or even just making fun of my gamer skills. I also don't like games that don't end and require a subscription fee.

The only time I enjoy video games with friends is if it's in person and none of us are taking it seriously. I don't like to be competitive with other people in games so it's really only the goofing around which I enjoy, some of my friends are too serious about games for that though.

[(Anonymous)]

Totally +1 to your first paragraph. I like my videogames as a solitary thing that I can do BY MYSELF to relax or destress or do picky grindy trophy-getting things in my own way ON MY OWN. Mostly I don't really play the sorts of games that tend to have multiplayer to begin with (JRPGs, visual novels), but when I see more and more games these days where they seem to pay more attention to the multiplayer than the story mode/single-player campaign, or are straight-up releasing games that don't even have a single-player campaign, it makes me a little nervous.

I don't need everything to be a social experience!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

For me, I burned out in MMORPGs on the notion that I not only was expected to participate on a team schedule, but I was also expected to put in time to develop cookie-cutter builds and tactics. And if I'm doing it on your schedule and not mine, it's no longer fun.