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Image description: 4 panel Loading Artist comic. 1: Blue guy stands behind Red guy playing a game on the couch "oh it's a SINGLE-PLAYER game?". 2: Blue guy scoffs "no thanks. Single-player games feel too lonely". 3: Blue guy puts on gamer headset "that's why I only play MULTIPLAYER games". 4: Blue guy happily at his PC, while tweaking his game settings Voice Chat: OFF, Text Chat: OFF, Friend Requests: OFF.
(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.world)
In his defense playing alone in a world in habited by other players even if he chooses to not talk is less lonely than a single player game where you have no options to talk to others in game.
They are both “NPCs” that neither can interact meaningfully with in the end, so what difference would it actually make?
One of them has real people acting like real players, the other has brain dead pants on head “AI” characters.
The comic is dumb for many reasons. No one who claims they play multiplayer because they’re more social then goes and blocks all social stuff. Most people play multiplayer because they want to play with/against other real people because that’s where the challenge and fun is.