I’ve been playing games for almost 3 decades and I’ve owned almost every Xbox, so the online factor is there and overall easily accessible but I just never got this community feel I read in some places, my most played games are probably WWE 2k14 and Tekken 7 and 8, yet I’ve never interacted with anyone, I don’t have a headset and I don’t wanna hear voice or chat while playing though, it just distracts me and I despise losing, but apparently the people connect, make friends and a few even found love while playing their favourite game.
I envy them.
Is like the only hobby I have and tbh it isolated me even more from getting any type of affection or contact.
Some people mention discord but that awful app is terrible plus people act weird there, is like the game is very secondary there and just post cringe stuff instead.
Making friends is not something that happens to you, making friends is something you do. Keeping friends also continues to take effort and intent.
The discord groups for those games would suck. Discord is about community, those games are not. Playing more socially oriented games and joining the discords for those games would show you a completely different side of discord. But discord isn’t an important part of making friends. Just one option.
The most important part is if you want to make friends by playing games, they need to be games that would actually lead to that.