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Why does the gaming community (among others) have to be so destructive and toxic? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/general@lemmy.world
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I know this is human nature and this is nothing new. It's absolutely impossible to make something that everyone is happy with, but what's the need to be so destructive?

I recently finished The Callisto Protocol and in my opinion it's a great game but I remember people saying that "The game was so bad that they (Krafton) had to give it away (PS Plus) for someone to play it".

Oddly enough I probably like to contradict most people because another game I'm interested in playing is Immortals of Aveum and when I read one or another review people say that "It's just another generic dead game, like those generic trash Netflix series", I mean, is it really necessary to be so destructive? And I want to clarify, I don't give a shit what people say, if I like a game and I enjoy it I don't mind paying full price for it, and if I don't like it, I just don't do destructive reviews.

What I least understand about the gaming community and what I find most toxic is when they criticize others for playing something they like, like the phenomenon of criticizing Genshin Impact players or in the past the same with Minecraft. Do I commit a sin by playing something I like?

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So I enjoy playing Spiral Knights. Since right after the game launched in 2011 there were always a significant amount of players around, claiming it was "dead" without further specifying what that meant.

Spiral Knights still gets new players every day and even though it's free to play, some people even spend large sums on it to gample for cosmetics or buy rare items from other players.

I have come to the conclusion that some people just have an insane definition of "alive"

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

I don't understand sometimes the definition of "dead game" because as I mentioned Immortals of Aveum is a 100% offline game, what does it matter if it has 5 or 1000 active players on Steam?