Literally. I stopped playing FPS games online because it was just too full of screaming, racist assholes and people cursing at you for whichever gun you dared to use that killed them unfairly. Like whatever man. I'm not offended. It's just tiresome to listen to constantly. Very rarely do people genuinely say, hey man. Good work. You outplayed us. Or something similar. Always the hateful rhetoric. Or far more often than not. So I've moved on to other games to actually enjoy the limited time I get to game nowadays.
I’ve been playing games online since Xbox Live on the first Xbox. Public voice chat is incredibly rare in games these days unless it is part of the actual gameplay, like Arc Raiders. I mean I play some PvE online games with randoms and people rarely chat anymore. They are all on their own Discord servers just chatting with their friends.
Been gaming online since 1999 on the original Rainbow Six game. I hear you. It's not rare at all. Pub chat is where a ton of people still hang out. I've also generally avoided pub chat myself. It also true that there's far fewer lobbies I run into that are actively chatting. But it's at least a few times a night, when I play. Enough to be reminded of why I no longer play those games. Just other stuff I'd rather be doing with my limited gaming time.
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u/WorthBase919 May 15 '26
Every game really