RipperGrim
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If you still want to enjoy the hobby, but these things bother you so much, you'll be happier if you just play games and stop reading about them all the time on the Internet. All the negatives get magnified and seem so much worse when you read post after post after tweet, etc about how shitty something is. I often reflect on how much more fun gaming would be if I just played what I wanted, without any knowledge of spoilers, or shitty practices, or rocky development, or graphical differences between versions, etc. We all love this hobby so it must still be fun, but it seems like a most of what we do online is bitch about the negatives and therefore it makes them seem so dominant.
I disagree, do you think people would not have been upset about the way Assassins Creed, Arkham Knight, Sim City, Diablo 3 and all the other games that were launched as buggy messes because they didn't read about it? There are Microtransactions in some of my favorite franchises that hampers the experience to manipulate you into spending more money than you already have, this isn't exaggeration these are just things that are so common and accepted by the masses in gaming that they are just things we have to deal with now. Arkham Knight is the only game I have ever seen that actually got the backlash it deserved and that's because Steam actually did something for the consumers and not the Publishers. Good luck getting the console companies to follow suit. While I agree that shit online does get tedious and overblown (Notice my list of grievances doesn't include any shit about parity between consoles or consoles at all) the issues I listed are ones I feel are harming the industry and are also ones that are completely out of my control to influence because apparently I'm in the minority.
Just get away from the AAA industry. They are the ones doing most of the annoying crap. Look at indies and kickstarted western crpgs or smaller team games like life is stange. The hobby is great once you step away from the major pubs.
Oh I do, Kickstarter is awesome because of the CRPG resurgence that has happened and there have been some awesome indie games but avoiding the AAA industry is kinda why I made this thread. We are told to avoid it because it's seemingly the only thing we can do in other words we are helpless to stop some of the more shittier practices. The advice that we are given while makes sense is also not actually that helpful, "Vote with our wallet" doesn't work when you don't spend any cash on Microtransaction but if 100 others spend money on it to buy points to get a brand new base in Metal Gear Solid you can bet your ass it will have a bigger role in the next game and next and the next. One of my favorite franchises in gaming is most probably going to end up like the FEAR series ( Another franchise I was a fan of that got killed due to the industries problems) a husk of it's former self as F2P piece of shit. Now I know that sounds far fetched but at the same time Konami has been showing a major disregard for it's customers and how it views it's games, just look at the whole PT saga and how they prevented people from even re downloading the damn thing.
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Gaming is awesome now. Stop overthinking shit and stop overthinking the negative shit that happens. There's always negative stuff happening. Always. Forever. You'll always be upset then. Focus on the good, enjoy that shit.
Why the fuck is not being happy with way some things are done overthinking it? lol. So not being happy when games are launched broken. I can still remember the frustration I had trying to wait for the fuck up that is Mortal Kombat X on PC to get patched and where I eventually gave up on it and bought the game with a friend to play it on the PS4. But gaming is awesome now and shit like that doesn't matter!