Before I wasn't so sure but now I'm very sympathetic to the idea of playing only co-op games and PVE stuff and I completely understand now where you guys are coming from when you've decided to take that stance. I honestly think a big part of my change in attitude are the cheat whiners who now completely infest steam.
Some of these complaints may or may not be legitimate with Chinese hackers. However we've reached a new level of retard in the games industry generally where it seems normies are being driven out of games by autists who can play well and they're genuinely too stupid to know the difference between a hacker and somebody who is actually good at the game.
Take Battlebit Remastered as an example because that's a game I played to death when it came out and I sort of hop in the servers that are still active. I don't even necessarily think it's the bullshit chat moderation that has killed off the game's playerbase I think too many people potentially got scared away from all the negative review hack accusation spam that's going about the place and it's completely ridiculous. I maybe encountered one actual hacker in the wild and he ended up getting banned to the credit of the devs and this was on an official server. Recently had a game of battlebit and sure enough there was an actual retard accusing someone of hacking but he did get completely roasted by everybody in chat.
Do you remember when hack accusations were just for the lulz? These guys clearly mean it because they're that bad at the game. It's like a bunch of polygon journalists have taken over everything and they whine constantly about how many cheaters there are and want the game balance changed so they can have an advantage. Obvious smurfing on matchmaking style games is one thing but that's something you can identify properly and when you make these guys try and justify themselves they really are complete morons.
RIP Halo and CoD style lobbies, that's a thing of the past now that the normies have found gaming unless we all get community servers and private them big time.
Battlebit is dying because it's no longer a new game. It's just another entry in the Battlefield series, essentially a clone of Battlefield 2, which is 22 years old now. So yeah, I only put 80 hours into Battlebit, because I already had over 5k hours in BF1942, BF2 and RS2 combined. It's dying naturally.
On the other hand hack makers need to die. Not be banned, they need to have their doors kicked in and be killed on livestream. They have destroyed so many good games. Egregious examples are EFT, DayZ, Rust, and Titanfall. Just go look at any replay on War Thunder. You will find one or two players using ESP, and every few battles one using an aimbot. At least in those replays that don't have a hacker disconnecting everyone from the match. And that's just the ESP and Aimbotters. In GW1 you could watch bot waterfalls at some places doing automated FFFs, and that pretty much goes for any MMO. All destroyed by bots farming, and bots that play markets and not the game. Now, for sure most games are not at the CombatArms level of hacking, where every match would go for about 2 minutes before a hacker joined and used a OPK, but it's starting to get that way. Game companies don't take hackers seriously enough, because after all it's another sale. It's just better to play singleplayer or coop with friends.