The Decline in Good Multiplayer Experiences

"I was reading an article done by PC Gamer the other day about people’s greatest moments in MMO’s and it occurred to me, none of the experiences mentioned are recent. Nobody has fond memories of playing big multiplayer games in games today, or newer expansions of the games they had great times with. The multiplayer experience has become poor in recent years."

[madmonkey01]

multiplayer in destiny is pretty popular, and pretty much every big FPS focuses on multiplayer over campaign

[sdcard4gb]

That's nowadays, before that Singleplayer campaign was the main, if not solitary, focus of every and each self-respecting FPS.

[Tetsujin]

I actually agree, all my best online memories were 10+ years ago. My first online game was a cross between Midnight Club 2 on the PS2 and Champions of Norrath. MMO wise it was Final Fantasy 11 in 2004. Before digital games it was RPing in Yahoo Chat rooms. I always feel bad knowing those experiences will never happen again. Back then the trolling was low, everyone had fun, and the occasional idiot existed only to be chased out by the community eventually. Now it's a completely different experience, most for the negative.

[Zerace]

Agreed, the community in most of the big multiplayer games are dissapointing.

[Skankinruby]

If this were a sign of a rise in good single player games then I'd say hallelujah

[kevnb]

You got older.

[sdcard4gb]

Yup, and the world around you went to shit too.

[ThunderPulse]

I know how he feels.

[ThunderPulse]

Well I love playing Insurgency MP on PC.

[Lbolt187]

Gears of War 4 is amazingly fun. Especially horde3.0!!

[Ashlen]

Are you sure some of that isn't nostalgia from the "newness" of it all?

But aside from that the experience varies heavily from game to game. For example if you want an MMO with roleplaying there is still Ultima Online. Or if you want a less MMO more heavy roleplaying experience there are games like Space Station 13 where you can literally be banned for straying to far from your character role STO also has some roleplaying guilds at least on PC.

And people vary from game to game for example Neverwinter has by far some of the rudest players probably due to the anger the P2W environment fosters and the fact that if someone gets banned they can just make a new account for free and continue to disrupt.. Where as games like Guild Wars 2 and FFXIV from my experience have a lot more friendly and helpful players.

And in general I find the smaller the games populations the closer knit and more friendly the players tend to be.

So I don't agree that it's all downhill it's just about finding the right game and the right group of players.

[susanto1228]

Asian MMo's like Archeage and Black Desert are what's killing MMO's

[NapalmSanctuary]

My favorite online MP moments were in IL-2: Sturmovik on ps3. I was #8 on the tdm leaderboards at one point in time. I wish War Thunder felt as good to play.

[bondsmx]

Personally, I think it has to do with age as well.. it seems the older I get.. the less.. idk the less I have those awesome moments I remember forever. Idk if it's really the games, or just my life.

Battlefield 2 I put well over a 1000 hours into.
Bfbc 2 I put around a 1000 hours into
Bf3 I put 700 into
Bf4 I put like 200 into. Rebought it and put another 200 into
And it's not because I don't like them, I work 60 hours a week now, I have a son that races motocross... there just isn't the time there used to be.
BF1 comes out Monday, I can't wait. But I doubt by the time I'm done with it, I put over 500 hours into it, even though I'd love to put 1k or more.