With the state of modern gaming, I can’t fault anyone who jumps down the throat of anyone speaking positively. It’s such a fucking predatory industry at this point, full of shitfuckery, and personally I don’t want to give any positive reinforcement to any games that have invasive DRM, online-only, kernel-level access, in-game ads and microtransactions, 3rd-party accounts, 3rd-party launchers, 3rd-party EULAs, prolific data-mining, etc. All of these should be deal-breakers. Things are this way because we allow them to be.
Comment on Gaming's "Toxic Positivity" Problem
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months agoToxic Positivity is a phrase that doesn’t refer to gamers online behavior in game, but rather the way that some will violently defend a product or company from any criticism like they’re shilling. Like how gaming media and online forums were trying to villanize the people criticizing Concord before that spectacularly failed.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
cheddar@programming.dev 3 months ago
I want to live in a world where that is a problem worth making videos and writing essays. I guess some people are too bored.
EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Understandable🐕that definitely is a problem, I wasn’t sure what op was talking about since the post seems to have the wrong video attached
dan1101@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Negative comments are fine but players are too black and white, they will say a game is “trash” because they don’t like one thing about it. Often they haven’t even played it. I think too many gamers are overwhelmed by choice or just spoiled.