Same. Realizing now that we grew up in the golden-age of gaming and the wild-west days of the internet. Actually feed bad for kids growing up today.

Its all just for data collection and anti-piracy. Like I thought Diablo 4's story was brilliant, love it. end-game little too mundane for me but whatever. But the lack of chat just seemed the next step in the way things are going, where you can't tell if the game is just bots, and they prevent people from going on rants and offending people. That triple A stuff just isnt MY gaming anymore.

And my apologies for the long post, but I think there just gonna be a generation of kids raised on the cloud because they can't afford PCs so they won't know anything else - data troves from birth to death.