arcelonious on 03 September 2013
Honestly, I think it goes beyond competition, I think people simply enjoy playing games with others, and it doesn't even have to be between people who know each other. I've helped people and been helped by others while playing Dark Souls, or found some nice sparring partners for Super Street Fighter IV, or simply received nice messages from people while exchanging pawns in Dragon's Dogma. I know it's easy to reduce all online interactions to the annoying, immature gamers, but there's a lot of regular, decent people you can play with and against as well.
