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.
They don't want to play with people. They want to play against people. This is most clearly seen with scrub accounts that people use when they feel like curbstomping their opponents. The really bad offenders would purposefully tank their scrub accounts' matchmaking rating so that the accounts' rating is artificially lower than their true rating, which means they will almost always be matched with players with a lower rating.