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- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 day ago:
I’m sorry, I refuse to continue engaging with bad faith arguments.
Have a nice day.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 day ago:
It does shift review coverage, generally, toward the ones with the most advertising
but that doesn’t mean that Redfall and Suicide Squad still can’t happen and review poorly
Thank you for arguing in my favour. Both Redfall and Suicide Squad reviewed well above 50%. For people on Lemmy arguing about statistics it’s obvious the mean is shifted so anything around 75% is mediocre, however, to the average consumer, that is not the case. Furthermore, I mentioned Kane and Lynch because that game was the reason giant bomb exists and everyone nowadays knows big publishers strong-arm outlets.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 day ago:
I’m sure Kane and Lynch are audience favorites. No reason not to think only the best games get reviewed and thus, shifting the mean 25% in the favor of the companies that just so happen to be the ones paying for advertising. It’s more likely outlets, on average, only review good games, that sounds more reasonable.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 2 days ago:
Statistically, if more than half of a random sample of steam games are rated to be good, the standards for evaluation are shit.
And the people that were supposed to let us know if a game is good or not, the “professionals”, have a median score around ~75% according to open critic data, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job because sponsors would gfo.
We’re on our own shifting through a pile of de facto shovelware to find anything of worth nowadays.
It’s a problem not exclusive to games, mind you. Music, scientific publishing and other content for profit industries have the exact same issue: Vetting quality requires work so for profit institutions offload the vetting to the user.
- Comment on Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios 6 days ago:
Well, that’s 50 studios that won’t ever see my money.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 week ago:
🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 weeks ago:
Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I’m happy for team cherry and their success. It’s not for me but I don’t resent them that it isn’t. This nothing burger discussion is yet another nothing burger designed to drive clicks and traffic off of the work of people who ACTUALLY create something of worth. Modern parasitism at its best.