You think you want it but you don't

So have you kids finally realized that it's plain horrible and among other things reduces the longevity of games significantly?

Iv known this shit since it started and still hate with a passion.

Its not the only step backwards we've taken in new age game design either.

>Its not the only step backwards we've taken
Ya but it's one of the worst and it's taken over the whole medium. It kills everything it touches.
It's like islam: the industry standard

MM is kind of a good thing when you have competitive setting like when the game has only a 5v5 comp mode and nothing else it works. Other than that it's just...

Agreed.
As a consumer I actively avoid any and all games with the feature, but its so mainstream that underaged and dudebros will keep it funded.

Its far cheaper on the devloper side to slap a shitty matchmaking system together.

I see a pattern there
Everything that originated on modern day shitsoles is a bane to video-games.
Prove me wrong.

What's wrong with having convenience?

A server browser is convenient too, more so because you can choose what map you are playing and you can choose with whom you want to play. You can stay and play with people that are fun to play with. It always pains me when I had a great matchup, just a perfect matchup and then it throws you out of that game and into a complete mess. And the times you get a complete mess are way more frequent than good ones, and that shouldn't surprise anyone.
Also people tend to not give a flying fuck about their team mates anymore. It's fucking horrible in team games, nobody gives a shit everyone is toxic as fuck.

>Also people tend to not give a flying fuck about their team mates anymore. It's fucking horrible in team games, nobody gives a shit everyone is toxic as fuck.
This
Nobody gives a shit about the random dude that will just disappear after the game. Matchmaking is like gloryhole fucking, you don't give a shit just put your dick in a hole, nut and go home.
It's so fucking impersonal.

>2 posters

More like 4,
It's impossible to have a non bait thread on Sup Forums.
Only by accident this ever works.
How do you start discourse when people are busy replying to the most obvious bait instead?

what's the alternative again? lobbies?
you think lobbies would help the playerbase more than matchmaking?

Lobbies are matchmaking, what are you even saying?
In the past we had a server browser infrastructure. One could have a "home" server to play on every day with the same people more or less, or one could want to play a specific map or gametype or a combination of both and find a game that had this running in a second. It was the evolution and progression of MP games.
The came the 360/psr era where MP was lobbies and matchmaking mostly due to the fact that the online infrastructure of said games was peer2peer. So Lobbies started to become a thing.
Since then The industry had switched to all those regressive practices as a standard.
It's saddening that kids today don't even know what they did.

mfw the kids on Sup Forums think people hate on consoles because they are popular.
It's because of what they did to the vidya. It's pure regression of the golden age of the vidya.

MM is just a symptom of the FAR bigger issue, which is no custom support.

It's mindblowing that companies can release a 60 dollar, online-only title, with 4 maps that you can only play in the exact way they specify with their dumb unlock systems designed to milk X hours out of retards.

So many games that could have been great, all they had to do was release a map editor and let people host their own servers with custom gamemodes.

We stood at the sidelines and had to watch it all go to shit, while getting shittalked by the very people that were responsible for killing the vidya.

That's just another part of the overall regression. It's such a huge disgusting step in the wrong direction, considering that most of the best games/gametypes/maps were all from the community. From us gamers and not the industry. It killed ingenuity and oh wonder look at the business. One stale ass piece of shit where I don't even want to pirate shit anymore because it's so fucking sad.

When did it become the norm that were were okay with not having custom maps anymore? Oh I know when the kids learned nothing from the past and just thought dlc map-packs were a great thing.
When was the last time you thought, dayum that's a fucking good map?
When was the last time you thought, dayum that's a really great gametype, such a good idea?
When was the last time you thought dayum I had so much fun in this match I hope I get kicked out of the fucking matchup now?

Attention kids, history lesson:
Counter-Strike was a community mod. The search and destroy gametype that set the foundation for a whole era of the fucking genre was a fucking community mod.
The most played maps in the history of video-games were all custom maps by the communities. Without an exception.

Why did they do it? For nothing but greed, for money, for control over everything.
They know you want new maps, why not let us pay for them. The maps are shit 99% of the time but that's not their concern. They know they got you by the balls because you are addicts. They know they get away with it because they do since 10+ years.

Remind the kids , beat into them if you have to if you want to take control back and free the vidya .

For the love of our beloved pastime, make this the last console you bought. It will only get worse, we can only get control back if you take the power away from them.