Great post by Steve there, I largely feel the same way as he does, the online side of gaming has deteriorated so much, having said that, when I'm playing Halo online and Monkey joins my games it does cheer me up a lot.
I enjoyed the mini FIFA tourney, can't believe we got it done, btw, the only reason nothing new is on is cos of the summer, it'll be back with more come October. I played Evolve with Pedz a few times in the beta and enjoyed that also, he seems a nice dude. I even enjoyed the division with Fin, Glowy and Degoose but that got fractured by the games leveling system, I'm possibly ahead of them now which is ironic.
I also enjoy reading posts from people who are passionate about a game, it peaks my interest in said game and also it's just nice to read about, as such steves post about SW was great, as is Jawa's about Elder Scrolls online, I bore most with Halo but I do think (shut it glowy) that Ark would be the ultimate GRcade game, mostly because it's server based so any of us can go on, and help the rest of us even when we others aren't playing by doing all manner of things for the good of the 'tribe', gathering resources, capturing dino's, stocking up food for us, it's endless really. Plus having a tribe of 5-6 members would mean we would boss most people on the Island. Maybe we just need more people online... hopefully it will get a semblance of how it was.
As for Steve wanting name changes online, it's not the worst idea. Forza Horizon 2's clan was called grcade and has more members than this entire forum, the Halo 5 clan is called Grcade and is rather large but mostly empty these days