I know there are probably a lot of posts out there saying the same thing I am, about how gaming isn’t what it used to be, since publishers are now more focused on making money than keeping a solid player base andaking a solid game.

I have been playing games my whole life from casually to competitively, even going as far as commentating games for leagues and tournaments, so it really breaks my heart when I turn on my PC, and realize I have no drive to play anything.

I end up booting up a random game, but then get no enjoyment out of it. Even when I know I won’t be having that much fun, I still do it; maybe because I have nothing better to do, or maybe I hope that this time I’ll really enjoy playing.

I don’t know it’s just a little rant. I’m posting this just so I get other people’s thoughts on my situation and that of gaming as a whole. I really want to enjoy gaming as much as I used too, but it’s hard at the moment. Do you guys suggest I try a take a break, discover a new genre of gaming, even a new hobby, or something else entirely?

Thanks for listening have and have a good day!

  • cringedismemberment@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a gaming addiction, and it’s been hard to try and find good games even when I play for hours. For example, Roblox (i know people are gonna get mad at me for mentioning Roblox) has no good games on there besides a couple of the shooters, and even those are unbalanced and cash-grabs most of the time. Honestly, I’ve almost completely quit multiplayer games, and only play ones that aren’t super competitive (really hard to find…) since all the lobbies on every multiplayer game (especially shooters, also there are some exceptions but games like them are either really hard to find or dead) are always so toxic and you always get one sweaty kid ruining the game and yapping every time he dies in chat. And nowadays, it feels like sometimes there’s more script kiddies than actual players. One of the greats of gaming, TF2, got absolutely bombarded by bots, and trying to play the game for the first time during that crisis was a huge turn-off for me. Nowadays, all I play are singeplayer games or RPG’s like fallout, starfield, RDR2, etc. Sometimes I’m able to go into a multiplayer game with my friends, but we almost always get targetted by little kids if it has a singular weapon in the game. So mostly we have to just retreat to Gmod and have a server to ourselves.

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    To sum this up (cause i know a lot of you aint readin allat), to me it feels like there’s no good games anymore, and because of that I just hunker down in singeplayer games because it’s unbearable to play multiplayer nowadays due to many factors, mainly toxicity.