Going through the absolute shit on offer currently it really is remarkable to me how backwards this industry has gotten. Micro-transactions were one thing but it looks like any kind of co-op game is just some god awful grind fest if it's free to play yet that's what the majority of the cons00mer types seem to be playing now.
At least Stardew Valley and Helldivers 2 can be called video games but honestly I tried PoE and it bored me to death not to mention the obvious trash FPS issues it seems to have right at the beginning. I'm going to just check out the Warframe gameplay rather than play it myself.
Even without the enemies having 500000 hitpoints it seems that matchmaking is often garbage in these games at the best of time which immediately gets me having flashbacks to GTA V and I go into a fetal position over that because rockstars matchmaking is truly awful. I don't think I could ever play co-op with people if they just quit halfway through and inevitably the instance ends right there so you're fucked and have to immediately jump to a queue only to have another twat abandon a game right after. So unless you can keep playing with people even after they leave or solo it that means the game is effectively unplayable.
Yep, offline or solo play only for me.
To confirm your belief, it's interesting how when you sail the high seas the types of games people are playing are in fact radically different to what pops up on the most played for steam. I just refuse to have anything to do with grind based gaming these days and it's pretty obvious what some of these devs are doing if you do the maths on it. Reminds me a lot of when some autist did the maths on Battlefront 2 back when the grind was shocking and that was a game you still paid money for because they wanted to lock the content behind a grind based paywall.