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It's nuts. The most fundamentally incurious audience ever. Go to any subreddit full of people who primarily engage with just one series as their main hobby, or even just *one game,* and 99% of them know nothing at all about it besides its most absolute surface-level qualities

How many of them started screaming that it was too hard once it actually did come out

86% of the other year is buying game related Content or engaging w it on social media, toys, apparel, lifestyle products + stream donations

This is almost certainly true as the way the industry defines "game players" includes people who play mobile slop or have a couple live service games/series and that's the only things they touch.

you needn't call it a theory, it's just literally the truth www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-th...

There is definitely something to this I think. I actually play a lot of games and I think it leads to a very different head space and having more nuanced opinions of games in general. And much less of the your entire personal self worth being based on one game.

They actually studied this. It’s two. www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/b...

silksong came out and the same subreddit that kept being talked up happily as a wacky, silly places of obsessive fans who love the game so much, quickly became a miserable swamp of endless complaints about team cherry choosing to make the game Somewhat Challenging.

As an indie enjoyer, we must come to these people with compassion, AAAs arent hitting, the world of indies can be intimidating at first, we must guide them. But no i do agree with you on this.

Indeimaus is one of the rare few who walks the walk on that front

I would guess that at least 50% of them didn't even play Silksong

that's because they don't care about the genre, but Silksong specifically. I belong to the 5 percent you mentioned and I get what you mean, but I don't see how that's bad in this case

this one in particular floored me, the genre is literally called metroidvania! like HK? play a metroid or a castlevania! most of them are really good!

I am the superior gamer cause I played through Aria of Sorrow and SOTN like 5 times each between hollow knight and silksong

How is the car draw from the deck not rng?

Hey. Sometimes it’s five, lol.

We have long talked about Gamers vs gamers, but every day I worry there are far more of the former than I think. I know the grumlings are louder than they are numerous, but they’re still really fucking loud.

Also probably hasn't helped that the industry's marketing has consolidated almost entirely around (1) Keighly run events and (2) Nintendo, who fucking hate the games press lol. Seems they both read the room on where this situation was going

There were good intentions, but the constraints on the industry meant articles often felt more like intros. Plus, there was a habit of truisms like arcade games are just penny pinchers which often didn't get any pushback. A little too much US centric narrative crafting and a lack of true deep dives.

No the mirror is true though. While their are ghastly fucking people in the fan bases of these games your estimation of games journalism is laughable. Developer's compensation for games are based on the scores the games get while those same score companies are dependent on the games. Viscious Cycle

I mean any audience of that size is going to be composed of some loud obnoxious segment. The problem with the gaming community is they are also terminally online.

Also technology already gave up on convincing people to try this and that. Everything is algorythmic, nobody knows what they want unless you know your tastes pretty well. Maybe we need spaces to focus on gaming and absorb the content, just like when we used to save time to read our monthly magazines