I haven't had much experience with multiplayer. But fellow Australians were very good experiences. This was before social media and people were friendly, generous and kind of timid so high expectations from eachother, a treat to interact and join in doing what we love.
Good reason to make it all PVE so everyone is eager to make connections, do better. PVP could be a shitshow of everyone trying to make the other falter, like tennis, or basketball, degenerate sports. Focused on the enemy instead of yourself, your team. If there's a loser it's a bad game. Everyone dirty at the end of rugby and you have acheived something bybthat with the other team, all men/manly, brave. Can celebrate together having ascended, earned a state for a while, long enough to enjoy it with some spare. Feel good having done your part. Give credit to what did a good job. Evwryone a part of that and what glorifies it. Someone wins then everyone wins.
Videogames weren't popular, knowing about them and being good enough at them made you a select member of something, one of the best. No gameplay video upload, no streamers. People playing because they enjoyed it. No social scene. No gatekeeping. A good thing potential most of what was perceived. Imagination makig everything enhanced, real, extended past what was prepared and rendered.
Had a good time in The Division too. Solo and then stoic, someone wave, invite, accept, get shown around. Thankfull, playing wingman loyal. Shown the way to be leader/start a party/make a party work.