The player numbers are dwindling. Looking at the comments on Rare’s announcement videos, people are not happy with the past few seasons and updates.

My bad experiences also come from playing the hourglass PvP a lot.

I quit playing last year after almost 2000 hours.

Too many racists, sexists and otherwise toxic bullies and cheaters.

The devs giving them a second chance and lifting the ban on most of them really broke my trust.

I still intend to coming back next season after this break. I really enjoyed my time, at least until the number of hackers exploded and am hoping to find at least a little bit of that spark again.

Cyberpunk 2077.

I don’t care much for the story and it gets too much into the way of me trying to enjoy the world.

Also I despise that Silverhand guy.

Windrose is an upcoming pirate survival crafting game, that supposedly got some good ship gameplay.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3041230/Windrose/

There’s a demo available.

Not unlikely. The game is full of horror but also plenty of gags and memes

It should work. I was doing a lot of trade and moonshine runs

There is a way to play privately with only your friends, although unofficial, not supported by Rockstar and only on PC. It’s a little program call ‘RDO Lobby Manager’ and it modifies your game in a way, that you get put on your own server. Your friends need the same program.

https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/772

I love the idea of Max watching TV with pointing his gun at it the whole time.

It’s not that different from real life though

It’s published in EA, that is Early Access. Not by EA, the company.

Just a user?

I just deny the existence of any game that is an Epic Games exclusive title.

Maybe I magically attract those toxic people. Could also be my regular crewmate who plays a female black pirate and gets double the bullshit. I have a few videos with us being called the N-word and screenshots with horrible ship or guild names and Rare barely does anything about it.

I don’t play open crew. Only with friends.

Sea of Thieves. Getting called all the slurs there. Also an incredible amount of hackers (yelling slurs).

Unreal and Unreal Tournament

Saved you a click.

There is a browser extension which redirects you to all the non fandom wikis. https://getindie.wiki/

I don’t think many, if not most, thieves care about how much their victims have. They’ll just demand a sum and the victims can get fucked for all they care.

One of the best moments I had was with a gun breaking. I was mowing down enemies with my machine gun and that thing flying apart was just so comedic in its timing