I don't play multiplayer games anymore.

First off, they always seem to enable the worst of game companies trying to financially ruin their players.

Second off, I'm in my 40s and my reaction time isn't what it was when I used to play UT or Quake. You can't improve an aged reaction time nearly as easily, yes, because it's gotten slightly worse with age, but also because you become less willing and / or able to dedicate the sheer volume of time that you would need to to improve. Getting repeatedly stomped isn't fun, and quite simply, I've got better and more important things to do.

Third off, I don't like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. A handful of maps are expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery, storylines, and varied experiences. Doing the same thing over and over again is just boring.

Fourth off, player communities in some games are aggressively dogshit and I really don't want to interact with them at all.

Yes, it's a peaceful life. It sucks when i finally can sit down in the evening and start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager who has nothing to than practice all day.

Or team based PvE games where it's just trying to keep up with the speedrunners farming.

In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.

Got drunk and played megaman 11 with siblings, passing around the controller, cracking jokes about how megaman’s ow sound seemed weirdly gay and horny in this one. I was so bad I kept getting him hurt and it sounded like a gay porn.

My sister asks “isn’t that supposed to be a robot child?”

Me: “He’s been a child since the 80s and his voice is lower now. He’s a megaMAN now, and how dare you demean the short king fighting for your safety over his robo masochim kink and short stature.”

Brother: “yea he can’t help he was built that way. You’re a monster. Don’t kink shame”

Me and bro: -glare-

Sister (who is in a poly relationship and very much the alternachick of the family): “….what the fuck is happening here?”

Single player games are still fun when played together.

I have over 1500 hours into The Witcher 3.

Sometimes I think at least 500 of those hours are just me loading into the game after a long week, finding an isolated spot on the map, and just staring into the sunset while the wind howls in my headset.

I'm in my early 40s. Back then, I used to play Quake 3, UT 99 and Tribes 2 competitively. Not anymore. Life is stressful enough, and I don't want to add to that by playing competitively. I want to relax by playing story-based games. I also play a lot of games on easy mode so that I can truly enjoy the story.

The live service model has been a plague on gaming and has basically killed every bit of enjoyment I'm getting out of multiplayer game nowadays. Shit's like having a job. You leave for two weeks and you might as well be playing a different game. Leave for a month? Maybe the game don't even exist anymore. It's exhausting.

I used to play mostly shooters online.

Somehow, living next to a country which is invading one of its neighbours, and seeing a bunch of actual real war footage from real wars on the daily basis, made me reconsider if shooters actually qualify as "fun" these days.

Don't forget all the new CoD, battlefield, and even tarkov (soon) is requiring TPM 2.0, secure boot, and actively blocking linux making it impossible to even play them.

I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.

I miss community servers. Each had its own identity and you could pop in and out without being penalized. Being locked in to a 30+ minute sweatfest with people I don't know, or like, has never been appealing to me.

Cheating and involving money ruined multiplayer gameplay.

I sometimes miss counter-strike, but i lack atleast the time and the people to play it on a level where that game is fun and probably the reflexes.

Competitive multiplayer games are a big no, but I love cooperative multiplayer games. I'd much rather play one of them with a friend or two than play something by myself. I couldn't tell you the last time I've actually beaten a single player game, I tend to get bored and lose interest half way through.

I've always preferred single player games. I hate multiplayer, all those strangers running around in my TV, chaos everywhere. I want to relax and explore, but multiplayer is stressful. I don't want to deal with other people.

If I wanted to be the target of homophobic insults, I could just do it to myself in front of a mirror, though granted, I can't really emulate the voice of a 12 year-old so it's not quite the same experience bouquet.

Beyond that, multiplayer is almost like working - you're supposed to relentless keep at it, on somebody else's timings even if you're in a guild: done it in EVE Online and WoW and, frankly, for the experience of work I have real-life were I actually get paid for it rather than the other way around.

Then there's the whole creepy monetisation shit - I'm not really interested in the constant sales pressure, especially when it's "buy this or else you're handicaped vs those who did" (EA is still in my shit list since they did it with a DLC in one of the older Battlefield titles), especially nowadays when I've managed to mainly remove advertising from my life.

So I just stopped doing multiplayer a decade ago and pretty much avoid it like the plague.

Maybe I'll try Guild Wars 3 if it's in the same style as Guild Wars 2 (which came out before the monetisation era).

Sometimes I force myself to try multiplayer, but other than Gran Turismo, Last Of Us factions and Gears of War, I never found how it could be considered as enjoyable.

And even these games are way better as single player games.

It’s also making my move to Linux gaming way easier.

I thoroughly enjoy single players games. I like being able to explore the world at my own pace, make my own decisions, and draw my own conclusions. It's like reading a book, if turning the pages involved solving puzzles and beating monsters. Relaxing, if you're good, challenging if you're not.

Cooperative games are a close second. I like PvE, it means that I get to help my friends. The objective isn't rank and competition, it's winning together. It's why I like Starbound, Minecraft, and D&D.

Genuinely? I despise PvP. It's the trash talk and the aggressively competitive assholes who have nothing to do with their time. I hate dealing with people who like to hurt strangers by humiliating them. Who the hell enjoys that?

I only stopped playing multiplayer games because all the current MP games suck shit.

This is going to be extremely niche, but I find the surf mini game in Counter Strike Source to be incredibly relaxing and rewarding while also being a quasi multiplayer game. The community is quite helpful and friendly and there are almost 1000 different maps of all skill levels so there is something for everyone if you are into movement based mechanics.

I personally mostly use video games as a means of an escape from real life. And to me multiplayer pulls to much of real life back into games and it can be unenjoyable.

Multi-player is fun at a good old fashioned Lan party and not much more.

I miss multiplayer video games. I wish someone still made them.

I used to be pretty good at the usual stuff like COD, CS, Battlefield… but each game got fucked up in its own unique way. Stuff became just too sweaty and annoying, all the while the sense of community faded. COD back in the 360 days was fun. Now it’s just annoying.

These days, I’m fully single player. It’s just not worth the price of modern games to deal with all the multiplayer bullshit.

I was pvp hardened in Eve Online, exactly because of that I will probably never touch anything multiplayer again.