Immersion and Multiplayer world

I remember Kevin saying this in the lecture- first time you read a book, you are fully indulged to reading that you could forget to do other things while second time you read the same book, you may have the awareness to see typos.

I have been playing Pro Evolution Soccer(PES) for a long, long time. When the new series of PES comes out (it comes out every year) I am 'diegetically immersed' to the new gameplay- becoming 'lost' in the newest version of the text. Subsequently after a while, once I become deft enough in handling the new interfaces and so forth then I would naturally move onto the 'Situated immersion' stage as my vigilance opens up for other details in the game space such as the ad-boards around the stadium, the brand of the soccer boots that the players wear, and all those other 'versimilitude' stuff.- a true game space experience that allows me to be a 'virtual soccer player.' Generally though, I guess 'newness' of games does in some sense influence on the players' 'immersions.'

However this is when playing by myself- with the embedded computer intelligence being my opposition. After a while the gameplay feels tacky because the computer AI has its limit and deft players can lose tension. Perhaps some degree of 'diegetic-immersion' long before the next version of the series comes out.

According to my experiences, this becomes a totally different story when I play against someone else- a real human or people. There are 'pride' up for grabs-which is more than enough motivation for a must win. Who cares about 'experiences' of the game space? I have to be fully absorbed or 'diegetically immersed' to the game to WIN! In this sense does multi-player gaming distract or perhaps even obstruct 'game space experience'? Do we inevitably become passive in being immersed to the act of playing merely the games itself?

On the other hand- I may be OFF TRACK- I think Online-gaming 'immersion' is quiet interesting. YES, players are immersed to the game itself, but also my rather rash assumption is that there is a so-called 'neo-space' - A 'communal' space that everyone can freely interact with many other people around the world with ease. Online-gamers can not only play games together but they can also chat to each other- and this can even be non-game related chatting. It may be rare but I have even seen people going out who firstly met through an online game (Yuk!). So I guess some people play online gaming because 'they just like to be there with others' and for other reasons.

Game becomes platform for meetings of people? Does online-gaming provide NEW game experience? Perhaps a new kind of 'immersion?'