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another game i can't enjoy anymore (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/games@hexbear.net
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been playing wardogs a lot, but I think I've had my fill at this point cause of voip. Nothing but bigotry and slurs and "what if we were all gay guys haha" humor. Text chat is just as bad, had someone saying Japan used to be "honorable" when they were "conquering countries" and idk it's rust all over again; really fun game driven by social interactions that's ruined by the social interactions. Seems like it'd be a lot of fun with friends, but I don't have any that play and it's impossible to make friends with people like that being a part of every vocal interaction. Why's this gotta be my taste in games, I hate this shit

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[–] 10 points 2 days ago

It's one of the major things we lost when dedicated servers went the way of the dodo: the ability for server admins to ban or whitelist people and so cultivate a better environment. It wasn't perfect, as there was a constant inflow of edgy teenagers, and admins aren't always around. But I think anyone who was playing voip-enabled multiplayer in the mid aughts or so experienced how much more consistently obnoxious and hateful the tone was in games with matchmaking vs dedicated servers. There's a reason that CoD lobbies became the avatar for online racism.

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