Anonymity and party chat killed it. The glory days were in MMOs, where you couldn't simply make a new account, ran with the same people on the same server, thus learned to live with each other. Plus there were moderators, no voice chat and everything you typed was stored on the server.
All the decent people seem to have moved on. At least in GT Sport. I just picked it up again, only recognize the names of bad apples, haven't seen any of the nice players today. A lot of new people, all just barging through, playing a different game that has little to do with sport.
The only time voice chat was decent was in ST Bridge Crew, co-op. Anything with competition and humans simply can not behave. The best online shooter for me was the 8 player co-op in resistance 2. And much earlier LAN gaming, no anonymity, no problem.







