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Message: [QUOTE="jakecr, post: 75221, member: 29419"] Gee I played Quake, Doom Deathmatch, HL1/2 Deathmatch and UT99/2004 a lot in my youth, combined I played them for over 10000 hours, just in Q3 I had 4000 hours logged on my Xfire profile (anyone remember that?) I played them competitively for over a decade but like most people I quitted at some point. Around 2006-2007 I felt things became too competitive, stressful and toxic, I wasn't having fun, it was always the same people playing and we were all tired of each other lol back then Arena FPS were pretty much dead replaced by military FPS like COD/MoH/BF etc which were all the rage and revitalized the FPS scene, which I switched to myself until COD Ghosts and Advanced Warfare when I quitted online gaming completely for good. The cheating became so bad it made me quit, and again it was just stressful and toxic, the only time I had fun was when I could go to tournaments or playing with friends in a LAN party but public games were a no-no for me anymore. I was always balancing online gaming with my single player gaming and in my adult life I only had time for 1 so I chose single player gaming which I always enjoyed way more, it was the best decision I've made in my gaming life. Also because I spent so many hours playing online not just FPS but RPGs my back is all kinds of fucked and tends to hurt a lot due to all that time spent sitting down, so I can't sit down for long hours like I used to nor I do I want to, with single player games I can pause and get up and do other stuff or take breaks whenever I want. I do look back on Arena FPS games with nostalgia though and I'm glad I was able to experience it at its peak especially with how big and great the community was back in the 90s/early 2000s, today is not the same even if it's a little more chill than before when I left, also cheating has become so commonplace in online gaming today that is not even worth taking it seriously anymore since you will almost always find cheaters in public matches. I detest cheating in online games, it immediately kills any enthusiasm I could ever have for them, so to me it's not even worth trying anymore even casually I'm better off enjoying my single player games. [/QUOTE]

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