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Partly. I stopped playing multiplayer games years ago because I was missing out on so many good single player ones. But wanting to play an online multiplayer game these days puts you in a very large bubble with very few options. After scanning the top 10 multiplayer games on twitch it seems the majority follow similar principles.

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My biggest problem with MP games is that there is little room for casual gamers in these competitive games anymore. It stops being fun when you get dunked on repeatedly and it’s getting harder to find community servers where people are playing for fun and not to win and clip it for twitch/YouTube/tiktok.

Yes. I used to play Counter-Strike (pre 1.6) at a fairly high level. But it was still basically goofing around compared to what is expected of even novice players in Counter-Strike these days. I guess a lot of people want to be the next esports/twitch star and unless you're a god gamer you're ruining their chances.

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