maybe its just eu servers, i hate it in here, but these fucking animals dont comunicate at all, despite being able to, everyone is shy, and blames the "toxicity" they had one time, and thus decided not to ever use it, despite being able to mute and block and move on, i miss the times when voice chat was accepted and widespread, nothing beats the countless nigths of fun banter with internet randoms, it was so much fun, and gave my life some semblance of connection to the human species, something not available in the real world, and now, not online either, every game is a ghost town, no mics to be found, helldivers 2 for example, awfull game. And there no one comms, not even text chat.
>>2924995why would anybody chat in a game when you get reported--and action is taken--just for saying gg?
>>2924995>what happened to voice chatthe biggest thing is centralized official servers meaning getting banned from the entire game, not just one server. no one wants to risk that.
>>2925318>>2925992this is pure cope, games with no moderation at all still don't have anyone talking anymore. People are just pathetic nowadays and everyone thinks they have self-diagnosed social anxiety. They're also extremely selfish faggots, actively sabotaging any team-oriented game they play by choosing not to communicate because ooh oh talking is le scawy :'((( idgaf if everyone collectively has a worse time because I refuse to properly participate, it's more important that I never ever experience a modicum of mild discomfort!!! Fucking assholes. No-one sees other people online as people anymore, they don't want to, no-one exists besides them in their heads. People consciously log onto multiplayer games just to act like they're playing with bots anyway. Everyone is disconnected, everyone assumes the worst of each other and preemptively wants nothing to do with anyone else and they're too retarded to see that they're creating their own problem.
retard its the entire world getting internet and not just the good europeans and the USRusniggers and other subhumans dont speak, they judt grief
>>2926298you sound like a faggot I wouldn't talk to you either, regardless of moderation.
>>2926298another thing is discord. discord is a cancer, no one wants to use squad chat or team chat when if they want to chat to people they can chat to their "friends" on shitcord. sit there chit chatting about nonsense with people who aren't even playing the same game instead of saying relevant things like "we got enemies spawning east, take out that squad leader" or "everyone spawn in as AT, let's take out that tank"
>>2926298yeah, i blame biden era and the push for atomized lonely people, and radicalization that lead to censorship and game bans, in overwatch 2 i was banned for saying reinhart diff, not even a swear, yet they banned me, its def something to do with companies pushing an agenda
>>2926404oof, i never liked discord, i am a loser and even ten somehow, discord losers are worse, i have literally never liked using it and still avoid it
I have an accent so that plus everyone is racist in games for years, FPS and anything related mainly. No not indian though Retired from multiplayer vidya to single player and other hobbies
>>2926298Assuming the worst of anyone online is the rational and logical choice. I mean why do u want people to talk to you? You get flamed, looked down upon or just mocked, toxicity or whatever then...I mean who wants to talk to strangers online?
>>2925318>>2924995This, also in 99% of games you just need to do your job and fucking chill. You should know what you're supposed to do, if you're looking for constant validation for your actions and decisions go and play a sweaty MMORPG
>>2926298>People are just pathetic nowadays and everyone thinks they have self-diagnosed social anxiety.No, modern gamers are in their 30s and 40s. After 50 hours this week at the ball-crushing factory we dont want to hear squeaky 12yo South-East-Asian kids screaming on voice chat so we click this. If I talk to anyone, itll be one of my 3-5 gamer friends (that I've known since highschool) on discord
>>2927889my mother died in the next room over while i was being toxic in League of Legendsi quit playing online games, esp. competitive games after that.
>>2927940Okay, but your political commentary is ruining the world via Twitch. Maybe you should stop that instead.
>>2927940Ok so I am right still though.Why would I wanna get insulted? I just play old single player games, really multiplayer games are a waste of time
>>2927969I mean this in the best possible way anon, why are you here in /vm/?
>>2928066I came here looking for a game I used to play. Wanted to see the general here, it's not even a thing anymore
>>2928072what game?
>>2928077It's no use, it's dead dead, extinct.You wouldn't know it, never had big numbers. It wasn't any FPS, now that genre I can never play again multiplayer wise. The people there just have a bad vibe
>>2928079inb4 pokemmo or some shit, just tell me anon I promise I wont make fun of you
>>2924995The world ended in 2012, we're all in hell now so not a single thing couldn't not get worse.
>>2928079Was it Infantry? Feel like I'm the only one who remembers that.
>>2928079The ultima server is still up.
>>2927921my time with internet videogame strangers has been really good actually
>>2930264Why? How?
>>2926302literally thisif you play with white people they'll talk and have a good timeso if your game is niche, usually finei vc in hunt showdown with randoms every game, worst case scenario they're a redditor and get silend angry and wait to tk me because of my welcoming 'sieg heil mein nigga'but majority of the time it's wholesomein large population games it's just fucking third worlders
>>2930709I ran into a white Aussie guy in a house in DayZ yesterday and we scared the fuck out of each other, threw a few punches mostly out of panic but we ended up having a chat about a couple of minutes. Traded a few items, gave each other directions and went about our way. Anglos talking to each other on online games is still very normal, but if there are SEAmonkies and other 3rdies around we'll turn voice chat off entirely and treat them like AI bots in the lobby of whatever game.
>>2930557idk i speak with cool ppl and they banter back and if someone bad i mute and block, way more fun than not
>>2924995
>>2926298What I don't understand is that you typed all of that as though you think you're going to form deep and meaningful connections over a shitty FPS PvP game.
>>2936955u can and i have, u cant anymore tho
>>2934784what does this mean
>>2942164Enjoy the silence
>>2924995If you are talking from the experience of Overwatch's EU servers then im the person who played lots but never once joined voice. Why?1) ever since this game took the e-sports approach its filled with moba spastics who deserve no time of your day2) blizzard put russians in EU servers, those niggers only type and speak in russian3) you actually do get reported and banned if you strike a redditorsame applies to text chat
>>2926298truthnuke
>>2924995It's EU. Most 3rd world retards like Turkish, Russians and any other former Eastern bloc players don't still understand that English is an international language. They spam the chat with gibberish and expect others to understand this. I'm not even English myself obviously.If you go to the US servers, there's always some form of banter going on.This applies to any online game not just to Vulva's gambling shit.EU is a trash place to play online especially these days because of the influx of these "new" people. Even 15 years ago things were still slightly different.
>>2953923To add:I wasn't talking about voice chat alone because that's pretty gay in some casual game, I play games to relax and not to listen to some unknown guy's mouth breathing on my free time. But my post applies to any form of communication of course..
>"YOU HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH NEGLECTED SCREAMING 12 YEAR OLDS IN MY VIDEO GAME">"YOU HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH SHITTERS WHO WILL DO NOTHING BUT BITCH AND CRY WHILE TRYING TO ACT TOUGH DESPITE BEING THE WORST PLAYER ON THE TEAM">"YOU HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH SOME HOMIE WHO REFUSES TO USE PUSH TO TALK AND HAS THE WORST MUSIC EVER IN THE BACKGROUND."No. I don't, and I won't.
I deliberately play games where teamwork is a bit deeper than "hold F to revive" and randoms use voice chat>Foxhole>Squad (sometimes you get kicked from a squad if you have no mic)>REMATCH - people rarely use voice, only to insult you MW2 styleBut yeah, it's harder to make an online friend these days, while I was making a few say a decade ago. Yuri from NL and Alex from UK from xfire I hope you're doing good
>>2967452Oh and Holdfast, especially the ship mode
>>2926298>games with no moderationsuch as?...
>>2924995We're poor and live with our parents so we can't call you niggers over voice. Sorry.
>>2926298You sound like the exact form of excrement who would report somebody and try to get them banned for saying something you don't like.>>2973240lol (at you not with you)
>>2924995covid destroyed human interaction skills
>>2926298I'm not your social worker, faggot. I bought a game, not ajob as tardwrangler for social cripples. After having to cope a lack of human contact through online chats during covid, me and everyone else is fed up with it, and the heavy atuomated censorship where you never know when you get banned for some harmless comment does the rest.Do like everyone else and go outside, if you don't want to do that thats a (you) problem.
zoomers have no social skills
>>2924995>despite being able to mute and block and move onIronically, it's the rise of this mindset that honestly killed VCIt used to be, you played on PC, you were actually expected to be personable. If you were a rude person, you frequently got kicked and pushed to the servers that are out on the dregs. You were playing with other people and participating in a community, not just playing a game, so being anti-social you wouldn't feel the inclination to do.Then console multiplayer hit the scene, and it's full of entitled kids playing games that have rapidfire matchmaking instead of consistent servers, and where the only moderation tools in-game are to mute and leave, so there's no reason to be personable as a whole. They're instilled with the idea to just be fully self-centered in their interactions, because anyone they piss off can more or just leave, and if they don't, then the next lobby might swap them out with someone that actually likes your shit instead anywaysBut with the root of this mindset being "fuck other people, my online experience is all about what I want and what I expect it to be," then that naturally shifts people into best achieving that ideal: just not talking to anyone. Everyone's idea of "like it or lump it, just mute faggot" and "it's all about me" has reached the point where no one's willing to deal with the messiness of interacting with new people anymore.The only way it'd change is if people actively wanted to be the kind of person that others don't actively have to mute, and that's not gonna happen any time soon. Even a simple concept like "friendly banter is only friendly as long as both people are going along with it" gets labeled as fragile cuckbaby better-man shit by tw*tteroids and consoletoddlers.
