Always with the stupid
Calling GAF out rightly.
If you played a test or demo, or full product, post constructive criticism.
But this site has turned into a 30+ page thread or some shit dunking on a games player count from folks who never played it and never plan to acting like they are morally authorities on the matter.
Insufferable and delusional rants that lead to stagnation and companies only being willing to invest in madden 999 and call of duty 62. You're not getting your whining across to devs at all so you're only making the situation worse.
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Developers or any other business for that manner is not entitled to our money or time just for existing. If someone/business makes a shit product, then they made a shit product. If I see some terribly atrocious, activist driven fucking turd like 1348: Ex Voto for example, see the developers acting like smug cunts about it, and then they get immediately humbled just from people not supporting their worthless trash, then guess what? They fucking asked for it. The world isn't here to coddle these people just because they made a video game, and I refuse to sugarcoat my opinions on these parasites just because they MIGHT see some comments on the Internet that might hurt their wittle fee fees.
"Moral authorities"? You can't be serious. Who the fuck are the "delusional moralists" in these situations? The consumers asking for a game that isn't filled with their ideological waste, or the developers calling consumers "incels", "losers", "chuds", "Nazis" or outright fucking condoning murder? The same jackasses who will make every excuse under the sun for their failures instead of looking inward. (Btw, I've noticed only American devs do this. Imagine a respected Japanese director like Sakurai unironically pointing at random TikTok videos as to why one of his games failed).
"Waaah, entitled gamers", "waaah, hate campaign", "waaah, Steam CCU threads", "waaah, meanie head Youtubers", "waaah, Steam discussion boards". How many lame, childish, baby rage tantrums can these grown """men""" and """women""" throw instead of saying, "how do we improve for our next product?" Only fucking gaming has this problem where industry directors and leaders are allowed to PUBLICLY insult their customers, come up with shitty and babyish excuses, and get patted on the fucking head for it.
A good example of how to conduct oneself as a professional in this industry is like what Marek Tyminski did when the LotF reboot failed to be profitable for a long time. Marek asked/polled customers about what they want to see in their next game, try to secure better funding opportunities, ( I heard he's trying to get LotF 2 to release on Steam instead of being stuck with Epic) or even invite industry vets to help on the next project (he invited some Bluepoint devs to join CI Games). That's how an adult handles setbacks, not whine like a little bitch like little Jeffy Poo here.
Literal 12 year old girls have more strength of characters than dumb fucks like Matt Hansen, Kim Belair, Jeff Kaplan, Corrine Busche, every gaming media """journalist""" apparently.
The one thing I'll break bread with you with is if someone is basically stalking the devs on social media and flooding their comments sections or sending them emails/calls with insults, death threats, etc and what have you. I'll agree that's twat behavior, but that's not what's happening here. He's just mad that people aren't mindlessly licking the asses of these devs just because they shit out some performative garbage with terrible stories, intentionally ugly characters (always female, never male btw), shoddy at best gameplay, and half-assed optimization. Sorry, but I'll never be sorry for not mincing my words when it comes to calling turds for what they are.
Btw, dumbass normies are to blame for sportsball manure and COD selling millions every year, not Gaf users. I don't think the majority here fall into that category. There was poll on Gaf not that long ago where sports was at a 0%, shooters at 5.8%, and RPGs being the dominant genre favorite at 48.8%. Not the most scientifically rigorous poll but it tracks that core gamers are on sites like Neogaf while your average normie doesn't know or care about gaming outside of their annual trough slop.
TLDR: Devs need to act like adults, stop making retarded excuses, and do like Kratos says; "be better". Stop blaming everything under the Sun except themselves.
Rant over.
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