why do a lot people dismiss online gaming so much?

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bananaking21 said:

JayWood2010 said:

I prefer online gaming to be honest but i also like story. You know how the saying goes "If you are bad at something you dont like it" ;) Yeah that is my theory haha

From my experience though online gamers dont journey forums to often.

well i can say a reason for that is because mostly gamers on forums are the gamers who been gaming for a long time, and as i said in the OP,  a lot of those people do dismiss online gaming

I feel like the majority of gamers who have been gaming for multiple years (across a few gens or maybe literal decades) game not because other people in their life do (or not only because of that) but because they actually enjoy it. There are exceptions of course but many online focused games are less about fun gameplay/story, etc. and more about competition - which can be fun for some people (quite a few people) but is not fun for everyone.

Basically it's a preference thing, not everyone is going to enjoy the same things you do, that's something you have to just get over. You are in good company however as online gaming is very popular and only growing in popularity - across all forms of gaming really.

You can probably tell that I don't really enjoy multi-player(especially online) but I recently played Dungeon Defenders which was a blast and much better multi-player than single player for instance.