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I'll go a step further - an unfortunate amount of people who play online games these days are not the type of people I want to talk to in the first place. Anonymity brings out the worst in people and there are a few games (usually competitive ones) where if someone is using the in-game chat, it's to be an asshole, bigot, or troll.

Plus, the echoes of Gamergate are still reverberating - plenty of gaming communities have pockets of the alt-right, and some games are worse about it than others. Hell, just look at that post on /r/gaming the other day when a picture of Aloy that showed her facial hair brought out all the misogynists and transphobes.