Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoLemmy isn’t a big place. People who populate gaming threads are an even smaller fraction of the userbase. So to see the same handful of opinions, repeated again and again, upvoted ad infinitum – that’s a pretty good sample size.
I deliberately posted this thread as a contrarian take. And what do you know, it proved to be contrarian.
I didn’t say anything outrageous or mean-spirited. Everything has been quite reasonable. But judging by the responses – you all think every mobile game is a gacha game – I can safely few of you have nearly as much experience with games as you believe you do.
By the way, this is why I generally put little stock into self-declared “gamers” opinions. Most of you are obsessed with playing things in a prescribed manner, in a particular way, regarding a specific canon. And you generally adhere to the same bland culture with little appreciation for diversity.
Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
The hypocrisy of claiming that you can’t judge any game without physically playing it yourself, then turning around and judging thousands of people you’ve never interacted with based on a couple interactions, is absolutely staggering.
Consider giving human beings the same benefit of the doubt that you give to software.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ha! A “few” interactions…
Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
And yet you jumped all over people claiming to have played enough games to be able to recognize crap when they see it. Again, you’re dismissing real people while standing up for what exactly? Defending corporate garbage?
I enjoy the occasional mobile game too, I don’t have an issue with your general opinion. But you certainly aren’t convincing anyone with the childish attitude and ridiculous reasoning.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dismissing? No.
Recognizing groupthink with the same tired talking points – with zero research or citations to back it up? Yeah, I call it out when I see it.
The funny thing is I’ve never defended “corporate garbage”. I’ve said there’s hundreds of thousands of games on mobile, many which you can buy outright – no microtransactions. There’s more premium, fully paid mobile titles than on NES, SNES, N64, and GC combined.
I repeat, you don’t have to play a gacha game. You can enjoy the many premium titles on iOS and Android if you so like.
But everyone here ignores that very real fact in favour of jumping on the groupthink bandwagon.
And yes, I know I’m convincing few people here because they’re all too busy socially signalling they are in the Lemmy in-group to actually consider anything diverging. Which is fine. I’m saying it out loud anyway to disrupt the echo chamber.
Well, there are literally people here who insist all mobile games are gacha. When I provide statistics that show otherwise, rather than changing your views, the reactions here are that I’m a secret shill peddling for a statistics company.
That’s the calibre of conversation I’m dealing with in this thread. And you’re no different.