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I'm unreasonably upset with a game (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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But what I'm really upset about is that people aren't communicating and cooperating and being respectful of each other and working together and being social and pushing back the alienation and playing and finding joy.

I'm so fucking isolated these days. This is the closest thing that I have to a social outlet. And so many people in multiplayer games just have no interest in communicating or working together, or have no interest in, like... playing in a way that supports the team and works towards a cooperative goal? Like they're playing by themselves, in a multiplayer lobby, and I absolutely do not understand it and I hate it. I don't understand why people play multiplayer games when they don't wan to play with people.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This was a good post and I get it. Gamers are some of the most atomized, hyper-capitalist freaks on the planet. Reminds me of that Dan Olson video game essay. I showed my friend who plays FF14 it and I don't think he got the idea that was being communicated in the video about how external factors warp people's experiences with art/games and couldn't help but just comment on how people should or shouldn't raid. I felt like how you feel a bit when I was talking to him a little, and obviously feel similarly about talking politics with the masses of liberals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dan Olson video game essay

Could you send me a link? I'd like to read it.

Someone linked me this, it's an hour and a half in depth analysis about how optimization and minmaxing and data mining turned WoW from a fantasy theme park to a number crunching exercise that required so much precision and conformity players had a mission controller and various bots and automation program telling them exactly how to play the game optimally. It was really painful to listen to because I've seen it happen in so many games, and it's awful, any goofiness or whimsy has been crushed out of a lot of games by this all consuming need, not even to win, but to just turn the game in to calculator that will spit out the biggest possible number.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it was the "Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft" video by Dan/Folding Ideas you're referencing.