But why do we gamers keep doing this to ourselves?
I don't want to be sold on trailers or stock game footage and get unstable dogshit day 1! I want the finished product! That shit was less acceptable when your console wasn't always online 24/7.
Because we, as gamers, are a flawed subculture. We bitch and moan about things all the time, but it's never productive, because it's always at each other.
NPD threads are the number one example of this. Instead of people using the thread as a sample on the market interest, and wondering how this will affect future strategy, all we get are purchase justifying assholes barge in, and shit all over the thread.
The casuals don't care enough to complain. All they want is self gratification, and the largest makers in the industry are delivering it to them in spades.
The hardcore don't have a voice, and when we do, either the casual defence force, or gaming journalism shuts us down.
It's a cycle of bullshit that we can not escape, unless garbage stops getting bought. But, alas, garbage will be bought, and forgotten about in two weeks, as the publisher unveils a new shiny piece of new DLC. It's disgusting, but that's the nature of today.
We can have both happening at the same time.
