You gave the best answer and not sure why it was -1.

If these games that have a 2023 release date are good:
Wo Long
Minecraft Legends
Redfall
Flintlock
Lies of P
Eiyuden Chronciles
Hollowknight Silksong
Replaced
Starfield
Forza Motorsports
Stalker 2
ravenlock

I get them with gamepass and if I playing these games I am less likely to buy a $60/$70 game.

Think the smart thing may be is get gamepass and cancel PS+. Sony doesn't have any online exclusives that I need to worry about.

Breathedge lets you whip it out and pee on things, sometimes to your disadvantage.

There are many millions of gamers who never had sbmm, but now the new gamers suddenly cry? Why the difference?

RuneScape. As far as actual addiction, my young mind got such a high from grinding and leveling up. Such a stupid game that isn't actually that fun. Like really, who wants to sit and click "chop tree" for an hour?

Thankfully I can now recognize the signs for when I'm actually addicted to a game and know when to quit. I don't like playing games that don't have a real ending. I have a few friends that have tried getting me to play WoW and I won't.

League of legends

Kids these days can't handle being bad at a game, it's not fun if they aren't dominating the lobby. If their first game isn't good, they quit the game.

Not sure the genuine reason but if I had to guess, nobody wants a sweat goin nuclear in their lobby and stopping the more dogshit players from having fun. Imagine dropping a top ranked league player against just about any team of assorted low ranks and the game is basically decided on the spot completely ruining the fun for them, but that top rank player is having a fucking blast. Many people prefer not to bother even touch competitive either because it's well... competitive.

Diablo 2 , and Saints Row 3

I was playing on my girlfriend's overwatch account one time. She doesn't play shooters very much and I've been playing them since I was like 10 years old. The difference in skill in the lobbies I was getting was overwhelming. These were people who had trouble with basic mouse movement and controls. I was destroying the entire team by myself, they literally couldn't do anything to stop me. If every game was like that, I'd imagine a lot of people would just stop playing.

Hearthstone. I had to delete it. I downloaded, and was like, "it's a crappy version of MTG". Next thing I know it's 4 hours later and I'm still rocking. 5 nights in a row I stayed up till at least 3 am playing it. It's not that I wanted to exactly, it's just that I literally lost all comprehension of time. After I realized I played for two hours at work one day, I deleted it and never went back.

Elden Ring

GunZ: The Duel

Good times.

>”It’s interesting to get smashed every couple of games”

Casual gamers don’t feel that way at all, it’s only people that take gaming waaaaay too seriously that complain about SBMM

There is nothing casual about getting stomped by people with a much higher skill level than you. There's no working like crazy in a casual game. I genuinely do not understand how that is so hard for you people to grasp.

> Its interesting to get smashed every couple of games and have some good ones and have some bad ones.

Yes, but in most games it's not "some good and some bad ones".

If you're not very good yourself you'll just get stomper, over and over and over. It is not fun to join a lobby, enter a match and then die the first 20s in because someone with 3 times your playtime got matched against you.

WoW, 04' to 08'.

World of warcraft.

Wonderlands

Warhammer Vermintide 2

For me it was EverQuest and FFXI. For me to have any type of human relationships, I had to stop playing MMORPG’s.

Dark Souls

Escape from Tarkov the game aggravates me like no other and yet I still keep coming back

Wow! The point of hard-core gaming is to have a challenge. What's the platform?

Agreed

Csgo specifically dust2 comp