• Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    Some people have fun by trolling. Some people have fun by winning. Online games are meant to be played with friends if one doesn’t want to encounter toxicity.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      After a while, you’ll find that those “friends” will:

      • not be available at the same time you want to play.
      • won’t have the game in their library.
      • won’t necessarily want to play the way you want to

      You get your gaming sessions where you can, or not at all.

      • Dashi@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        I believe that is called having friends. Not clones of yourself. I’ve made plenty of friends online that we just played a game together and when we were done with the game we never talked to each other again. Played with some friends raiding in wow for years and at the end we were just done. It’s the cycle of gaming friends.

        And my irl friends don’t always play the same games but they are not “friends” they are friends. We have different ideas of what types of games are fun.

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      8 months ago

      Online games are meant to be played with friends if one doesn’t want to encounter toxicity.

      OR, companies can hire GMs and police their online environments, instead of just trying to increase quarterly profits.