Boyfriend has officially dumped me

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I'm very sad right now. Unfortunately I allowed myself to fall for someone who claimed to care about me and "love" me and wanted to make my life better, but has now basically told me they can't be bothered to make the effort required to have a relationship with me.
My former boyfriend is 19 (3 years younger than me) and lives in another country. We don't really share any interests except playing World of Warcraft and he said a large number of upsetting things to me while we while together - the majority of them things that would be upsetting to the majority of people, not just me or someone like me. However I travelled to his country to see him, twice, because he asked me to. He's now telling me effectively that he doesn't want to deal with my "issues". I've tried very hard to be a good girlfriend to him - not telling him things bothered me unless it was a hugely big deal and if I did tell him, saying it calmly and in a clear manner so that it would be easy for him to understand. I tried going places I would normally feel uncomfortable going because I thought it would make him happy and spent time with his family despite my bad social anxiety. But ultimately I don't think he really cares. He told me he didn't think things could work in real life - but he hasn't really done anything to try and make them work and admitted he probably wasn't willing. Now that I've invested him emotionally, found a way to trust him and spent money on travelling to his country (Denmark) he tells me he can't be bothered and doesn't think we have enough in common.
I just really broken right now. I do have chronic depression and persistent suicidal thoughts in general and limited friendships/closeness with family. I don't know what I did wrong or if I could have done something better.
He told me we could still be "friends" and that I could probably find someone better suited to me but obviously that's not what I want to hear right now... although there could be multiple interpretations, it kind of feels like him saying that is just to make him feel better about dumping me and the request for immediate "friendship" feels a little selfish from my perspective (he then got slightly passive aggressive/annoyed when I told him I didn't particularly want to be casual friends with a guy who just dumped me). I mean it's not like I wanted to be in a relationship (I didn't in concept, I just happened to like him) so him telling me I should find someone else seems a little unecessary and like he's just rubbing it in, at least that's the effect it has on me.
I tried very hard to work things out today and the time he said he could talk and offered to listen to anything he had to say but he sat there playing on his phone. He also told me he'd lied to me multipled times to avoid arguments, although he couldn't remember about what.

And yes, he did say that he couldn't be bothered, or rather wasn't willing to make the effort.

Hey s**t happens.

Maybe this was for the best. Sometimes this is hard to see at the moment.

Well, when you're extremely emotionally invested it's not really a case of "s**t happens". I'm sure I will heal in time, I guess, but it's hard right now.

He wasn't a gem of a guy, it seems.

I'm sure you will find somebody better soon.

I'm very sorry, same happened to me (she was Scandinavian too). In my case she didn't even want me to go visit her, even if it lasted for a year.

Oh, hi again. Well as I said, I'm not "looking" for someone. He just told me he loved me and I believed him. And my dating pool isn't that wide - there are also other things considerably limiting the amount of people I could potentially have a relationship besides being a depressed autistic.
Peacesells - sorry to hear. I guess visiting or not visiting could make it better or worse depending on how you view it. For me it seems hardly to "get over" someone having met their family and slept in the same bed etc... plus the fact I spent money on visiting him (and he didn't even offer to pay for anything while I was there) makes me feel a little used I guess...

Yeah, I guess it's so. Seen her on webcam a handful of times and talked rarely, also she would be absent for long periods without answering texts nor mails (heard from her twice in a whole Summer, and dumped me in September)... In addition she wouldn't send pics or be FB friends. Maybe it's good that I didn't go.
All her friends I met online were from other nations but their IP was always from nearby her city and recently I found out the pic I saw of them were fake and taken from Google, very creepy. Probably if I want there she wouldn't even have shown up. I think she was just having fun at my back, but I think what you got is much worse and I am sorry.
It's a shame that sometimes we are blind and can't see who we are dealing with, especially if we don't have much experience. Sorry for the rant.

Forget about him, if he doesn't like your personality then he won't be able to spend time with you, let alone live with you, you can always find a new boyfriend/husband since there are so many boys/men in the world. Consider the time you spent with him as time you were bored in so you spent it with him to entertain yourself and the traveling to his country as just tourism.

Maybe you should try dating someone who isn't in another country that you met on a video game. I don't want to sound harsh at all when I say that, but surely the results speak for themselves. You deserve better.

I'm not good at socialising in real life and tend to do so on WoW. I also really like Scandinavian guys (not that it's a reason to date someone, but I do tend to prefer them.) Going out to a club and meeting a guy who is a hardcore gamer and Scandinavian (my type) is unlikely, on WoW they are in abundance...
But I don't think that's the issue with the relationship. If a relationship's going to work and the people want it to, how you met and (relatively limited) distance shouldn't be an issue. People meet in stranger ways than in online games nowadays. I've heard of people who got married after meeting their partner on WoW, so that shouldn't be a barrier to a relationship working.

I feel for you OP. I was the one who traveled to meet my 2nd girlfriend & she lied to me about things because she didn't want to upset me or discuss the issues at the time. It was kind of a one-sided relationship on my end & it really hurts feeling betrayed like that. I met my current girlfriend shortly after thou & our relationship is alot more even. Both girls are Aspies but had very different personalities.

That's rough Dizzy, but hopefully he's just immature and will grow out of it in time.
My girlfriend and I live in different countries and we met in WoT, but are planning on moving together soon, so I don't think gaming is a bad way of meeting.
As for what went wrong: it might have been that he felt like he was supposed to fix the problems you talked to him about, since it's often the case, or it might not have been the right time, the trick of listening to others problems is to know how to not add them to your own.

Best of luck next time.