Someone brought up Rockstar Games and if you look at atmosphere of GTA Online today, I don’t know how many lobbies I’ve seen out there where it’s just sheer anarchy. Granted Rockstar enabled all of this by providing bountiful overpowered armaments for people to annihilate each other. It’s a long running notion now that if you want to grind peacefully without interference from griefers, a self-invoked solo lobby is the way to go. Which needless to say goes against the very purpose of having an online mode.
That environment helped me appreciate rich single player experiences further substantiating people using Sims for solo escapism. GTA Online thrives on this schism between griefers and grinders, I’m under the impression that if an environment akin to that happened in Sims, players wouldn’t have the patience for that.
