Hello!
My reason for waiting for Fractured is to find a game i can play with others. Like i played Diablo 2 with a guild or random people back then and WoW Vanilla with and also Guild Wars Prophecies and.... that basically was it! After that i never again had the same multiplayer experience again!
Elder Scrolls online is basically a solo mmorpg except the dungeons but with a toxic community.
Guild Wars 2 is basically a solo mmorpg except the dungeons but with a toxic community.
These are the reasons why i stopped playing those games. Because people told me how to skill because some guide or streamer said thats the best and nothing else matters which is absolute BS. There are a lot of topics around MMORPG's and the questions related to it "is the genre dying?" "why is it not fun anymore?" - i would say simply because people destroyed the fun of teaming up and playing together... in most cases! Obviously there are guilds and communities which have a blast together but those are rare to find or i can't find them.
I recently considered buying "Outriders" and i checked before the details. The game has a lot of technical difficulties. No problem, the devs seem promising enough and in a short time of 3 months they made already progress but you can't fix the community so i asked and i quote from the steam discussion:
"This game is really fun solo but the player base is pretty small now so finding people teammates may be a bit of a challenge. There are extreme levels of toxicity in the community and a few people who dont even like or play the game that spend there whole lives on the forums on a mission to stop people from buying it."
"In my experience, there's a higher level of toxic behavior in this game"
So i said to myself i won't buy it not because of the bugs and crashes but because of the community. I also checked steam groups and discords but couldn't find anyone to team up... still i exhausted my game library and wanted a new game. The next game i checked was the same and the one after that also... In the end i found a game i think which is good but still can't find anyone to play with, still on the search though.
Now this was quite a long "intro" basically but the question is: Why are so many people playing Multiplayer games solo? Do you think the same as me or would you say that i am totally wrong about the new Generation of gaming? What are your thoughts on this?
I would say the first problem is why people rather stick to themselves are trolls, griefers, gankers, cheaters, hackers. People who just try to destroy the fun of others for their own Entertainment so some people may say screw it i do my own thing.
The next one is the reason why i end up playing solo because i cannot find people with a similar playstyle. I like to look at the world that was crafted around me in a game. Look at spots where no quest will ever send you. I like to read quests if they are interesting and watch cutscenes like in guild wars but i wasn't allowed to, even before you land on the cutscene you can read in the chat "skip" and... no i don't want to, i want to know whats happening. I played path of exile for over 1500 hours and 1490 of it solo. Because everyone just wants to rush it. This rushing through dungeons and taking shortcuts in games is so annoying i don't get it! I want to play the game and so many people just want to do as less as possible to get the loot. I want to earn it! Rushing past enemies in dungeons in ESO and GW2... Jumping through lava in WoW to skip half the dungeon... This is the main reason for me why i end up solo.
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