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.
Autism post that got out of control but this tells you how much I played CS back in the day
I hadn't realised this at first, but because k/d ratio matters more than anything to a lot of the sweats now on CS:2 you had people who even on casual would camp like their lives depended on it but the problem is they absolutely sucked and would have done much better if they played the game normally.
Great example is De_Dust 2 and I saw how they would constantly camp T spawn ignoring everything else and then it hit me that this was some kind of moronic meta they were doing to try and funnel CTs into a killzone. Everyone who knows that map knows at the very least if you're going to do that you defend B tunnel so CT doesn't get any funny ideas about rushing.
However because they were so objectively bad and couldn't even hit mid properly with a bunch of them having awps the CTs would rush mid to B tunnel and rush B tunnel generally. This means that even if you had a couple of guys on T who were smart enough to try and hold B tunnel we'd just get overwhelmed and it would lead to T being steamrolled every fucking time because they sucked and would never look left to check for CTs coming in.
Oh but Lethn, why don't you just screech at them about B tunnel? Yeah, can't do that because now games are more 'accessible' than ever it's filled with non-english speakers who will just ignore you and it's not like anybody pays attention to any of that crap anyway because of all the spamming kids. So this means because of their retarded behaviour you're simply stuck as others have pointed out being a bot for other players to farm.
The only way to play multiplayer games now is to try and hook up with a reasonably organised clan or something and some friends otherwise you're going to be pulling out your hair having to deal with randoms and that's assuming the gameplay isn't total shit.