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.
And you validated this how? I am going to be honest but your competency level last time is not enough for me to trust you to say nay or yay.
I think the chat stuff, is actually killing it since it's a damocles sword mainly hanging over the western world (presume their language tracking of e.g chinese is less )and since there is an agreement to get on the master list a server does not live or die by its own community, it dies by the devs mods hands and we know easy it is to trust faggots, haha thus creating less incentive to run a server.
You don't need to be amazing at games to be able to spot a hacker, you simply don't, there are blatant signs you can watch for. Again, I'm not amazing at gaming, but even I can tell when people are being whiners versus an actual hacker in the midst like others have said there's things like snapping behaviour and totally impossible shots that happen when people are hacking because when hacking does happen it's pretty blatant. People are just that retarded now that they can't even spot the signs so they want to get good players banned out of spite. I've even defended the really autistic snipers on BB and everyone hates them lol they are fun to troll though.
As for chat moderation as an issue I do agree with that killing games in general, no one wants to hang out on a server where you get insta-warned or worse banned for saying fuck in chat. I remember back in the day how much I loved playing BF4 and the playerbase fell off a cliff when all these douche admins got themselves servers and made it impossible to play and people made memes making fun of it.
With regards to BB's playerbase, I just checked the servers, the one good thing is they're being transparent about that and don't try to hide it the way a lot of the other devs do. We'll see what happens with next updates and see if that will bring some life back into the game because they do have things planned which is good.
Kernel level anti-cheat is another thorny issue that seems to be affecting enthusiasm for multiplayer quite a lot because no one wants have that kind of shady shit on their PC just to play a game. As for my skill lol I'm extremely meh at RTS but I do a lot better when it comes to shooters in terms of being competitive. I like RTS games for the chill building and such which is probably why I enjoy city builders and god games way more especially these days.
I think it's fair to say we're in agreement about how shit things are and why, it's a matter of figuring out what the best way to fix it is.
It was not gaming skill I was question, it was your competency of understanding machines.