I find it interesting that it clearly seems to depend on which server region you're unfortunate enough to be in what minority groups ruin the game you're trying to play. For me because I'm in the UK it's always fucking Turkish players, I actually don't mind the Russians or Chinese all that much because they tend to be okay in that they at least know how to play the game.
Turkish players though piss me off because they're always shitting up servers and spamming chat. In CS:2 in particular they were trying to vote spam against people they thought were 'bad players' which is a dick move even by my standards to pull on casual or they'd immediately start crying hacker if a guy on the other team was better than they were.
I hadn't put two and two together that it was probably the minorities doing this the most and it's definitely gotten worse because all the kids are on holiday now fucking up the servers. I just found it funny that we've got a migrant problem in gaming now and it's so widespread all sorts of people are noticing these twats.
Honestly, trust me, just log in for five seconds on any game now and you'll see it, I suppose I should just be grateful I don't have to deal with Indians because they're probably several times worse. Playing co-op with any of these awful fuckers sounds like it would be a nightmare which is why I gave up on GTA V and I bet it's terrible on the newer games as well.
I will never forgive Blizzard for dumping the South American/Brazilian WoW servers in with the North American servers for "queue times" in the LFG tool. It meant that 1-3 of the members of my group of 5, or 1/3 of my group of 25 for LFR, didn't or refused to speak English, and it would take twice as long as it needed to just to finish easy content. Even my mom knows how much I hate Brazilians just from the frequency with which I would yell about them over the years. Fuck I hate them so bad.
It really would explain how awful the internet has gotten over the years. Whole swaths of unreliable third-world shithole countries flooding online spaces with their terrible attitudes and anti-civilization behaviors, ruining the pleasant experience for the rest of us just like they ruin the harmony and serenity of the cities they invade. Despicable.
I hope aliens don't view humans as third-worlders they don't want ruining the galaxy. :(
I still find it hilarious that despite the playerbase of WoW being generally pretty woke, you can just say the absolute worst things possible about anyone from Ragnaros and the other South American servers and everyone will agree with you. I've been in raids where them joining or speaking Spanish/Geeseporch just got them kicked instantly.
Almost like the only way "anti-racism" or whatever works is when you don't have to actually interact with those people. And the moment you do it magically just erupts from you.
By the way I don't know if you guys remember but way back in the SOE days, if you ever see multiplayer servers getting merged it's usually a desperate move by the studios to mask their numbers dropping. After that there would quite shamelessly falsely change the population status so everything was 'high' even though there was barely anyone playing.
Now though it seems they're more than willing to use bots among other sneaky fakery to make the games seem much more popular than they are because with the amount of hate CS:2 is getting even from the pro gamers I don't buy for a second the playerbase is as high as it is or they've just swarmed the servers with third worlders while everybody else has quit.
My son was a pretty high tier CS:GO player and continued for a while with CS:2 but eventually gave it up completely due to issues you mention. Now he just plays Elden Ring and Dark Souls.
The coolest ones are the guys who clearly don't speak any language including their own fluently and have spent 1000 hours or more playing a game they absolutely don't understand in any meaningful way.
Aliens probably aren't as homogenous as we'd like to think