Maybe it's not everywhere, but where I live, playing video games are still seen as a sign of immaturity and lack of social skills. Doesn't matter that there are mature rated games that require voice communication to play properly, doesn't matter that tons of gamers are in at least one gaming community.

Somewhere in the mid 00s, society established a new gamer stereotype as some lazy man child who prefers to sit around reading comics and playing games to going out and "grabbing life by the horns" or some other nonsense.