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Subject: Re: Single Player FTW
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On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:16:59 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

>A recent study reported that most gamers prefer single-player! Take
>that, multiplayer nerds! ;-)

Ha!..  Just as the best way to understand how a black person feels is
to ask a white person, and the best way to understand how a gay person
feels is to ask a straight one, I like to get my updates on the
viability of multiplayer gaming from a hardened single player only
person!

Honestly no, seriously I do understand that writing about games is as
important to you (or more so) than playing them but let's be honest
Spalls, you've never even been to kindergarten day one of
understanding the multiplayer gaming community, why people like
multiplayer games or anything even remotely related.

Personally I've always been both a single and multiplayer gamer, so I
have a slightly different selection (but please don't map that to any
previously suggested analogy because I don't swing that way, thanks..
;)

The reality is tastes vary, and everything I ever liked about
multiplayer gaming has mostly gotten decimated over the last 10 years
or so, to the point I kind of don't give a fuck if gaming itself
dissipated into thin air tomorrow.  The industry mostly destroyed the
concept of dedicated servers and multiplayer clans' abilities to
administer even peer to peer environments where they could play among
friends and have some control over douchebaggery, etc. 

Oh wait.... can we even SAY the word "clan" these days without someone
somehow tying it to the KKK and saying it's a racist word?

Ah well fuck it, I can't say I give a flying fuck about that.  I'm
just happy that in the moments before I die I will know that I did a
few things useful with my life other than playing video games and
complaining about them incessantly on Usenet for an audience of a
couple of dozen.

Honestly the whole appeal of multiplayer games for me was only ever
about 2 things.... playing AGAINST humans for a level of "AI" that
never was and never will be available in SP games, and playing WITH
humans in a tactical teamwork capacity, which involves a great deal of
microphone communication and is not an experience that could ever be
replaced with AI by the nature of what it is.

But yeah, mostly snowflakes and wokism led to the creation of
positions like "Monetization Director" within AAA game studios.  That
is another way of saying "Chief Marketing Fucktard".  His job is to
examine current demographics, and notice that snowflakes get disturbed
by historically accurate things, and preferred every character to be a
pink haired tranny farting rainbows while riding unicorns.   And that
sent so much of the multiplayer community looking elsewhere, that it
doesn't surpise me at all if single player games sell better these
days.

Have fun with the rainbow farting Spalls!  lol