• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    nice observation by anon.

    i miss making friends in games and couldnt quite put my finger on why matchmaking was much worse and unfun than old multiplayer and this is it.

    • stinky@redlemmy.com
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      19 hours ago

      They’ve abstracted away the social element. It takes so much work now to make a friend. After a game ends there’s perhaps a summary screen or lobby, so you can add another player to your friends list, but you have no way of discussing that with them. Anytime I get a friend request, I think, who is this? Why are they friending me

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        8 hours ago

        i tried just adding random people and once some japanese guy accepted and would play with me for a few days and speak words i did not understand

          • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            18 hours ago

            I wish this behavior was limited to a single playerbase. I haven’t played league in a million years and this still happens sometimes

            Can’t we all just get along? We’re here to play games darn it