I know it's a thing generally these days because of how shit multiplayer especially has gotten but if I see something that's 'online' now I don't want anything to do with it. Every new release it's the same story, they can barely be called games anymore they're more like a live service with some minor gameplay elements tacked on in the most half-arsed way imaginable. That goes for a lot of supposedly singleplayer releases as well depending on the company.
I think I'd much rather pour my free hours into something like Microsoft Flight Simulator because then I'd at least gain a valuable skill from it and I've also found myself delving back into the good stuff that was the early 2000's releases. Even if you see something that looks vaguely promising it inevitably gets annihilated by the DEI contractors that plague this industry now.
It's extremely ironic that the games industry is trying to cater to anybody who isn't a gamer and they seem to be all mentally ill weirdos to one degree or another who have an addiction problem and fleece them for all their money before moving onto the next cringey fad. I'm sorry for coming across too black pilled, but if a game does well it seems like that developers will go out of their way to ruin it because yet again, they've shown that gamers do not matter and we're nothing more than a vehicle for hype to get their product into the normie sphere who just want to college digital items all day instead of play the fucking game.
Oh it's all monitoring you now even private servers won't be private and that will be partly because they've made under the table deals with glowies and are 'monitoring for extremism' when they don't understand the average GTA V voice lobby is filled with a bunch of black guys mic spamming each other.
yeah its servers with baked in Discord & Twitch features
thankfully, i use neither but i had to use Discord one time for accessing a single player mod for Stalker Anomaly (Stalker GAMMA) and one of the troon devs (not kidding he had a faggot tranny flag any everything) banned me for having an "offensive" username dispite not saying a single fucking word while being on the server
when the trannies take over modding projects, then its the real death knell
They're already halfway there. They got their hooks in Nexus, which is the primary host for mods, and I'm sure they've infiltrated the competition.
Afaik, GAMMA and most STALKER mods are on Moddb, not Nexus. It's one of the main reasons GAMMA uses its own installer to streamline the process. If it was on Nexus or the Steam workshop it would've just gone with said host's built-in mod collection approach instead.