Does anyone else stringently avoid online games during the weekends?

Cymdai

I was curious if anyone else actively goes out of their way to not play online games during Friday, Saturday, and Sunday... especially in the evenings.

I personally stopped. Given my main stable of games at the moment (The Division, League of Legends, and Smite) I find it to just be a totally undesirable experience. Typically, games go from relatively friendly, fun, and collaborative into toxic, obnoxious, and overly aggressive on these days. It's literally night and day in my experience. 

I had mentioned this to some friends and they thought it quite odd. "Why would you stop playing a game when everyone is able to actually play?" they ask. And I respond "Because of exactly that; everyone is playing, and it has a detrimental impact of the quality and community of games."

Anyone else adhering to single player games on the weekends? For me, it's been a strict diet of X-Com 2, Fallout 4, and Stardew Valley this weekend.

Quizzical

Lately, I've been playing Elsword, which has such a pathetic chat functionality that I have no idea what the game community is like.  So no, I don't have that problem.

Kyleran

Moral of story, don't play MOBAS or shooters.

Volgore

Remember back in the old 56k modem times when you could only play ping-dependent games at late night, even during the week.

Gaming.Rocks2

When I was griding high ELO in LoL (what a hell that was) I avoided playing on weekends. It was like all the trolls came out of their caves. 

H0urg1ass

I don't avoid them on the weekends.  I guess that the ones I play are just a vile and explosive during the week as weekdays.

The best experience I ever had playing online games was Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 and 2 when players created their own servers for people to join.  We were able to self manage the rage hards and assholes and boy did it make our population a lot more civilized.

Once I found a well populated and well managed server, I never left it.  In fact, I count those days in that FPS as some of the best gaming days of my life.

Unfortunately, the new era of forced random matchmaking has really ruined the experience for me.  I'll still play games that do it, cause whatcha gonna do otherwise, but I don't care for it.

Cymdai

H0urg1ass said:

I don't avoid them on the weekends.  I guess that the ones I play are just a vile and explosive during the week as weekdays.

The best experience I ever had playing online games was Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 and 2 when players created their own servers for people to join.  We were able to self manage the rage hards and assholes and boy did it make our population a lot more civilized.

Once I found a well populated and well managed server, I never left it.  In fact, I count those days in that FPS as some of the best gaming days of my life.

Unfortunately, the new era of forced random matchmaking has really ruined the experience for me.  I'll still play games that do it, cause whatcha gonna do otherwise, but I don't care for it.

Oh man, I remember doing that for Battlefield 1942. I played on a dedicated server with the same 80 or so people (only 48 at a time though) and once I found that server, I never played against anyone else again. It was so positive and upbeat and fun. I truly miss community days like that.