The main thing with me and gaming is I really struggle playing alone, I need another person to interact with which is why I've stuck with console for so long as my mates have all got one.
I'll have to start trying to be actively social! Scary thought
I can empathise.
I used to play q3 online when it first came out. It was a great community.
Online gaming was still spangly, shiny and new and exciting and everyone was willing to help the noobs and the whole experience was relaxing and fun - we were all so innocent back then. Yes you got the odd tw*tstick - but they really were few and far between.
Trouble is as time has moved on people have got more experienced far faster and now everyone is an expert and patience/understanding seems to be at a premium.
Servers full of said Vjjs on a stick and everyone full of smart ass responses for the poor noob whose just managed to save up for the game and trying to muddle his way through with the hope of some friendly advice. Don't go on a CS:GO server - you'll come back a shell of a online man. That or come out speaking fluent obscenities in Russian about you and your mother in compromising positions...
I still play online occasionally, but stick to comms with my brother up country and turn all other chat off. Saves me wanting to try and track the address to the IP so that i can shove their keyboard into their obnoxious, churlish mouth.
Apart from that - online gaming can be fun!
Having spewed all that - i have actually met some very helpful ppl in Space Engineers. So it depends largely on the type of game you play too. (trouble is SE is a bug ridden nightmare - coded by sadists who clearly want to strip you of your sanity - so you see it's a swings and roudabouts type thing
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