Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 21 Jul 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 21 Jul 2023
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I'm starting to get sick of online communities (present company excluded) - namely how much people are willing to complain about something while continually consuming it. Two recent cases come to mind:
- Diablo IV - people were upset with Blizzard that it was online only, and then they were upset about it being so heavily monetised, then they were upset with its recent updates (sending the user score on Metacritic below 5). And yet they STILL continue to play it, constantly. Blizzard won't give a shit about your complaints if people are still consuming it.
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- Reddit - particularly, the new r/Places that has opened up. The complaints in there about how it seems that bots are destroying the very essence of the "game", and that mods are sabotaging anything against u/spez... as if they didn't think this would happen anyway after the last few months. And yet people still continually use the platform.
Perhaps more people will leave when constantly bombarded with whinging commentary on the reddits. I still try and recruit now and then on Reddit through various techniques.
I need to get myself out of the habit of defaulting to Reddit. I use it for some news sources on particular areas I love, but ultimately maybe 12% of the content is useful while the rest is just rage bait, or click bait, or our-right false information. If others want to keep using Reddit then fine, but I really need to take a good hard look at what benefit I actually get from it.
It is not just online platforms. I have quite a few people at work who will constantly complain that the conditions are dreadful compared to everywhere else, who seem to believe they could earn more money stacking shelves at the supermarket or doing some other "easier" job. And yet they have been working there for years and show no signs they ever plan to leave.
Those racist people who complain that immigrants and First Australians get privileges and all the government money
but when challenged, when asked if they would swap places, they say no.
And prisoners - they apparently have such a wonderful time in there it astounds me that these people aren't going out and committing crimes so they can get in on the easy life too. Strangely the same people seemed to be very upset at how horribly restricted they were when told to stay within 5km from home for a few months.
God, isn't the the truth. Everyone has a soap box (and I realise the irony give my complaint), and seems like complaining about certain things while doing absolutely nothing about it is not only a right but a responsibility.
People complaining about Diablo IV while continuing to play it are fucking idiots. You're right, Acti-Blizz won't change anything as long as people keeping playing and paying. It shits me up the wall, Stephanie Sterling fucking called it years ago, that microtransactions were awful and would become a cancer, and it has. I am tired of Acti-Blizz games, I am tired of fanboys defending Acti-Blizz; if they weren't going to boycott bc of the sexual harassment issues in the company, then they were never going to boycott over MX.\
Ugh!
I bought Dave the Diver last night and was having a blast with it. I switched over to Rimworld after a spell and had more fun. Then I realised I'm having so much fun with these more "indie" titles, and that things like Diablo IV are purely FOMO when it comes to wanting the game. I think it's an exercise in avoiding the online hype (although in saying that, holy shit Baldurs Gate 3 looks fucking incredible).
Also, fuck MXs. The day they became an industry standard was the day AAA videogames took a turn for the worse.
I haven’t look too closely into Diablo 4 despite being a huge fan of the previous entries but the slippery slope could be seen with Diablo 3 then the Immortals game.
No surprise that they’ll fine a way to generate income beyond the game release itself.
Ok but i reserve the right to scream vile invectives at this damned lynel colosseum