Personally speaking, I think it’s addiction to the game. I played the game Enlisted for a few years and became a veteran player. It irritated me so much when I got inexperienced players on my team and I was carrying. I insulted my team mates in the chat a fair few times out of frustration. It just wasn’t enjoyable at all, yet I kept booting the game up every day.
Competitive online games really affect my mood, they make me so angry and I can’t help it. It’s unhealthy when a video game is actually ruining your day.
I just stick to singleplayer games now.
brown_guy45@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Offline games are mostly chill
But online games, even though people play it for fun but after sometime it gets too frustrating when you don’t get the kills
That’s why I left playing online shooting games, those made me more angry
kautau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s funny too because it totally depends on the game and how it’s monetized and set up as well. I had some of the most fun in games in my life playing quick play in the original overwatch with my buddies, even though I almost exclusively prefer offline single player open world games.
My skill increased dramatically with our constant playing, I switched between DPS, tank, heals and really learned the roster. Not that far off from playing N64 super smash with those same friends in college and switching to a new character when you felt like you had learned one pretty well.
I would get annoyed at losing, but it was whatever, I wasn’t trying to rank in competitive mode. I work hard enough in life and work, I’m not playing the game to work harder.
That being said, unless someone was a Smurf or hacking, I never got super mad at other players for simply being better than me, usually the characters felt pretty balanced and if we lost it was because of bad teamwork or lower skill. All characters were available to everyone, the only monetary value was skins.
Then I played overwatch 2, and immediately there were battle pass characters locked behind paywalls or engagement, and those characters were seriously unbalanced. The game was “free to play” and “pay to win” right off the bat and I haven’t touched it again, even though I put countless hours into the first game. And that sour taste I have now makes it so I refuse to play any game with a battle pass.
Tall_Chilchuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wtf they locked characters behind a paywall? They at least dont do that any more. I played OW2 for the first time last year and everything (playable) was unlocked.
kautau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I think that change came after a ton of player backlash and people just no longer playing it so they changed the whole battle pass setup
FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Real
I would still consider myself young but starting to adult (bday today :D). But in middle school and early highschool online FPS were the best. Overwatch, tf2 stuff like that. Now the most multiplayer games are helldivers and recently Deep rock but I also have a ton of single player games like modding Skyrim and occasionally playing Skyrim, dead cells, noita (I do in fact have a skill issue) no man’s sky and blade and sorcery
Now my most competition is among my friends rather than against them. Which is much less tilting
Saleh@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I still enjoy TF2. You can play seriously, or do some completely whacky stuff. even when you get steamrolled you can have fun. In TF2 i never minded having a good K/D or so. just going for hilarious kills, even if they only work one out of five times makes the game awesome.
FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Tf2 certainly was a wacky game but my account got compromised and I lost all my items around the same stop I stopped playing