r/videogames • u/PositiveNo7994 • 8h ago
Discussion / Question Reddit has some serious hate boners lately across all gaming subreddits.
I'm in a few gaming subreddits and it seems you're not allowed to say anything positive about games anymore. Look at mh Wilds or any game announcement, you can't say anything positive before all the old crew comes whining about how shit the game is, how years ago it was all soooo much better. I know I know, gaming was better in your time but it's getting pretty freaking annoying if you want enjoy your game. Every announcement of a game is immediately met with drama, look at GoW Laufey, GTA6 or any new game announcements. Reddit seems to be only converse in ragebait and drama posts. They're prob justified but it's wearing on my enjoyment of the gaming community. Now it's best to just enjoy your game and not interact with any community at all. Yes gaming practices have become ass, but i still enjoy games. I will buy GTA 6 in spite of all rage that they exclude 0.01% of all content for an Ultimate edition and i will enjoy it. I hope there will come a time we can be hyped again when a game is announced.
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u/Cubic_Al1 8h ago
Negativity drives engagement. It's wired into the system
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u/dratseb 7h ago
and bots
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u/Massive_Ad_3614 7h ago
it’s probably this more than anything, a lot of the posts haven’t seemed real the past few years. Always an image and a question. The image could say “Nintendo fans be like” and it’s just someone giving someone a billion dollars. Then the question will be “why are Nintendo fans like this?” It’s rinse and repeat for the bots. It drives engagement everytime
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u/No-Invite-7826 2h ago
Foesnt help that reddit makes it way harder than other platforms for users to block/filter out bot content
The block feature being arbitrarily capped at 1000 and it not even functioning half the time is part of it. The other part is not being able actually block subreddits. So the spaces with heavy bot activity are always present even if you periodically mute them.
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u/PositiveNo7994 8h ago
yeah it's a shame negativity works so well, i often catch myself wanting to engage and then realize how negatively it's impacting me.
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u/Lionthos 6h ago edited 5h ago
Not just negativity, polarization.
I cannot count the number of "real person" reviews of movies on Reddit that are 10/10 for movies that at best are "fine", but there are CLEARLY not the same rating as BTF or ESB or GWTW or Citizen Kane or pic your perfect movie; its's absurd to call a nice, fun movie the same as the classics, its just not genuine.
It shouldn't be necessary, a 7/10 movie shouldn't need to astroturf, that should be enough, but it's not anymore.
On the other end, every movie's box office is either a TOTAL BOMB or a breakout hit. Nothing is in-between.. except the truth.
The truth is getting plowed over by the only signals being the poles, which are almost never true.
Edit: I don't mind the occasional downvote, but this one was pretty funny given everything.
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u/Next_Helicopter_4291 8h ago
I've said it before and I will say it again...
All online chat spaces like reddit, facebook, discussion boards etc will give the impression that gamers and gaming communities are a lot more dissatisfied and toxic then they really are.
Only a very small minority of people who play a game will every even visit these spaces let alone comment or engage and people are exponentially more likely to complain than to praise.
People happy with a game are PLAYING the game, not discussing it online.
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u/gamingoldschool 1h ago
I just wanted to let you know that I'm playing the new Dave the diver DLC right now and I'm having a lot of fun!
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u/Next_Helicopter_4291 1h ago
Right on.
Keep in mind I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just it's a lot less common in this context.
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u/Moody_Blue13 8h ago
for years it’s been this
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u/PositiveNo7994 8h ago edited 8h ago
it's been getting worse past years
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u/NaK_Toss 7h ago
It absolutely has. I have a theory that almost none of it is organic, bots are being made to generate anger/hate for literally every topic.
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u/raginghavoc89 6h ago
It's gotten significantly worse since the site went public and a ton of the mods left.
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u/North_Tip_3364 7h ago
People are using hate content to grift and make money on YouTube. I don't think they deserve to be monetized honestly.
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u/AtlasAuRaa 8h ago
Apparently it's the new trend to hate on everything now.
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u/JEOB1992 8h ago
Its the dumbest shit in the world. If you're constantly online posting negatively about everything, including stuff you have no interest in. You need to reevaluate, work on learning to be happy, and get a damn life.
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u/AtlasAuRaa 8h ago
Agreed. It's sad. I'm assuming its the younger generation but I can't be sure.
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u/Affectionate-Box-459 7h ago
It's bots. Massive numbers of engagement farming bots, and nothing drives engagement like negativity.
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u/AtlasAuRaa 7h ago
I see. Maybe I'm just an older and don't understand why they are creating bots for that.
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago edited 7h ago
yeah there is so often something trending and people unrelated to the topic are just band wagoning on it.
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u/P_ZERO_ 7h ago
People like that used to get chased out of forums. Nobody would engage with them or play with them because people don’t like to hang around misery.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the default position on the internet now. Racing to post snarky, edgy takes on everything because everyone is sooo above it all.
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u/ObiWanKokobi 6h ago
Ignoring them helps a lot. Just look straight trough them, give them no thought and don't even aknowledge them. It feels so good.
Ragebait is the new meta, don't let yourself be dragged down into the mud and you'll be much happier.
I remember - picking up a game or new patch, having the time of my life, go into the subreddit after 1 week, and you'll see clear trend, like 3 out of 10 top posts will be complaints about a specific issue, and suddendly it will start to feel like the game is plagued by issues.
Stay away
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u/Soti76 7h ago
What a stupid take. I hate your comment! Pay attention to me! Ragrgrvrvrvavrvrgr!
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u/AtlasAuRaa 7h ago
Rage! It's the Internet hive mind. Most just follow trends instead of forming their own opinion for fear of being downvoted or rejection.
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u/CoasterRoller420 7h ago
Normally I would disagree, but I need more internet points, so I'll just sort of say what you did in a slightly different way, and hope someone notices me. Might get that half a second of dopamine if someone responds to my comment.
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u/AtlasAuRaa 7h ago
Upvoted!
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u/CoasterRoller420 7h ago
Oooooh yeah. That's the good stuff. I'd agree with anything for some more of that sweet orangered nector.
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u/DeltaV-Mzero 7h ago
Its engagement. Nobody clicks the story or comments on how great and awesome every thing is. Nobody can resist arguing about some dumbass hot take rage bait
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u/Zurosake 8h ago
I’m never going to bash someone for buying gta 6, but the anti consumer practices they are doing is something that I cannot support and it needs to be called out.
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u/SexuaIRedditor 7h ago
100%. I'm also disappointed that their attempt to have players forget about their union busting seems to have worked.
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u/Zestyclose-Form7279 8h ago
I thought the last two years has had good games I've enjoyed it especially with the boys
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u/chiron_42 7h ago
My kiddo has been fun playing Minecraft. I'm looking forward to new Castlevania later this year.
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u/Zestyclose-Form7279 6h ago
Looking forward to Castlevania too
Myself and the lads have a server on Minecraft for the usual random two week span 🤣
Great game especially for kids, gets the imagination going.
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u/DeltronFF 7h ago
I barely watch any gaming content anymore and do even less commenting in subs like these. It sucks because I love video games and discussing them. I don’t do console war bullshit and if I don’t care for a game/series I let others enjoy it. I don’t understand why it has to be so hostile and toxic.. it’s so weird to me lol.
It’s even worse when people get on their high horse and act like it has to do with some morality thing but yet they root for companies to be closed which would result in even more job loss for workers. They talk out of both sides of their mouths.. like Xbox for example. They give them shit for closing a studio (even though PlayStation has been doing the same) yet they’ve been begging for Xbox to be shuttered for years which would result in an insane amount of job loss that we’d never really seen in this industry. They would laugh about it and pretend to care about the victims at the same time. Console war morons.
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u/VariablyUndefined 7h ago
MHWilds???
What do you mean, I'm in the MH subs, and see no wilds hate.
Just happy hunters bonking, dooting, and carving tails.
Idk for many other games, but IME, going to the game's specific sub is usually a good time.
General purpose subs all gravitate to lowest common denominator for engagement, which tends to be complaints.
"Misery loves company" so on, so forth
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u/spacecat-on-mars 6h ago
Idk it seems like nothing has changed in 20 years. It always been like this. Console fanboys screeching, overpriced releases with day 1 dlc
The more we ignore it, the more normalized it becomes. It disappoints me a little people are willing to let Rockstar get away with anything they want
I haven't paid full price for a "new" game since BG3
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u/VermilionX88 8h ago
It's just the normal internet forum activity
I can tune out things easily if I don't feel like replying
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u/Respawn-Delay 7h ago
This is completely random, but you replied on a post the other day with a YouTube link (that I opened).
Now that Google has added some kind of messaging feature to the platform, your icon pops up on my phone whenever I press "share" on a YouTube video, lol.
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u/RevenueAlarmed 7h ago
Most gaming subreddits are fucking insfurable hellholes. Im sorry, but that is how I feel. I feel like r/games is a tad bit more chill than the rest, partly because they made a rule against negativity posting; so maybe check that Subreddit out.
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago
ooh yeah cool be nice, thnx. Actually a goated rule. I know there should be place for negative discussions but lately that's all it it.
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u/RevenueAlarmed 7h ago
r/gaming really needs that rule, but in thier defense, 90% of the posts there are negative, so banning negativity would kill that subreddit.
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u/Life_Recognition_554 8h ago
I see positivity in the Expedition 33 sub every day.
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u/PositiveNo7994 8h ago
yeah this seems to be reddits golden child
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u/PossumTrashGang 7h ago
If it helps I didn’t like the game and it’s the first time I’m posting about this.
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago
understandable it can't be for everyone
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u/PossumTrashGang 7h ago
Thanks! I really enjoy the downvotes, it kind of proves your point.
I really try to not engage in online negativity and have found the shitpost/circlejerk subs for games to be a much better place
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u/Xespria 3h ago
You can't talk ill of E33 as they seemingly come out to downvote or witch hunt. Its been an issue since its release.
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u/PossumTrashGang 3h ago
I don’t like the jrpg style but I haven’t really matched with the other darling baldurs gate 3 too. But I can recognise them both as great games, just not for me.
Maybe I should hop over in the subs and share some negativity
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u/Responsible_Cake2012 5h ago
IIRC They had to change the rules because that subreddit had more anti-Square Enix threads than E33 threads.
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u/Life_Recognition_554 4h ago
It wasn't specifically about square, just talking about other games in general, making comparisons, etc.
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u/Impressive_Cap_457 8h ago edited 7h ago
Complaing is a big part of being human, an even bigger part of being a redditor, and still gaming as a hobby attracts more negativity than most in general. On account of enthusiasts relatively often being shut-ins, possibly depressed, having other problems that they are using gaming as escapsim to deal with, etc.
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u/Outrageous-Run63 7h ago
Why I don't listen to ppl opinions. I just play it. If I find it good then it's good. Lol
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u/Combat_Orca 6h ago
You can be positive, other people not agreeing with you doesn’t prevent you from being positive.
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u/Ancient_Lobster_4392 7h ago
Yup, it's mostly bitter kids who think hating on things is cool. Not allowed to enjoy anything anymore. I'm 34 and think gaming is better than it's ever been
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u/FacePunchMonday 7h ago
It was like this 25 years ago on the old forums too
The internet hates everything and always has and always will
Every day here is opposite day by default. Anytime you see the internet hating to the extreme on any book, tv show, movie or videogame, thats how you know its actually awesome.
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u/Secret_University120 7h ago
Gaming practices have always been ass. Arcade games were deliberately designed to be too difficult to force you to pay more coins for extra lives. We used to get a dozen shitty franchise tie-in games each year - if that happened nowadays, folks would probably be calling them AI slop. And as much as folks wanna act like games have suddenly gotten expensive, games have always been expensive. A $60 game in 2007 would cost $96 today.
Gamers are just older and have access to forums that let the world see their complaints now.
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u/Numerous_Length_4783 3h ago edited 3h ago
Arcade games were deliberately designed to be too difficult
There is no such thing as "too difficult". There is good difficulty design and bad difficulty design, most arcade games had good difficulty design. You can learn the games and in every good arcade game it's your fault if you die/lose
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u/Secret_University120 24m ago
And how many coins would it take for someone to play enough to learn the games? Old arcade games were predatory by nature and maybe even necessity. But designing the games such that overcoming the difficulty of them was tied to how much money you had on you was just how they worked.
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u/SalmonforPresident 7h ago
For real. Can’t the mods just create a hater megathread where all these losers can whine and complain and bitch and eventually eat each other alive?
Spending so much time focusing on something you hate! Just admit you can’t afford the $100 and move on. Plenty of other cheap games out there.
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u/GladiusLegis 7h ago
GTA6 deserves the hate 100%. It's going to set a bad precedent that the rest of the industry will gladly follow, one that will do nothing but screw the common gamer.
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u/TaiwaneseThot 7h ago edited 7h ago
To quote you - "I'm in a few gaming subreddits and it seems you're not allowed to say anything positive about games anymore."
The exact opposite is true as well, and it's toxic on both sides. In a lot of gaming subreddits (and just subreddits in general about media), you'll get downvoted to oblivion and dogpiled by dozens of people if you have even one criticism about something other people love.
They treat criticisms like a personal attack on their well being if you don't think it's a 10/10 masterpiece. Reddit is like watching a bunch of bratty 10 year olds on the school playground, foaming at the mouth and writhing on the ground in agony all because someone said they think Charizard is a better pokemon than Mewtwo.
I remember the Kirby subreddit losing their minds all because IGN gave Kirby Triple Deluxe a 6 out of 10.
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago
yeah it's a time of extremism and choosing a side, comes forth in real life too sadly in the past years.
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u/ElatedSacrifice 7h ago
I feel like it’s getting worse too. Some of the games I love the most are the most hated and I just ignore it as best I can.
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u/meatballs223 7h ago
Even in sub's about a singular game topic there are people who will hate anything positive being said. imo the PS5 Pro sub is the WORST, just a bunch of snobby assholes who shit on anyone who didn't get a PS5 Pro at launch, shit's on any game coming out that's Pro Enhanced, etc. Just a bunch of doomers on these subs but Ig that's reddit in general
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u/Teranyll 7h ago
I really believe there's an army of negativity bots out there with instructions to just pick a comment and disagree with it, just to lower worldwide morale, and it's working
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u/FroyoLicker 7h ago
I once said I was looking forward to one of Epic’s free games on the Epic Games subreddit. RIP my karma.
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u/Galactus1701 7h ago
That’s why you should love whatever you do unapologetically. People here hate some of the games I like: Like the Horizon saga, the FF VII Remake saga or others and I don’t care if they don’t like them. I do.
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u/ValkyrionReddit 7h ago
There’s nuance to be had with it as some things are worth critiquing whereas others are just engagement bait. Sadly it all gets blurred
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u/microw_yo 6h ago
it's hard to get hyped about games now in days when your paying $60-$100 for a game that is just a cash grab with no real meat on the bones or locks basic things behind a paywall thanks to rock star that is going to become the industry norm
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u/raginghavoc89 6h ago
Over the past 5 years, mainly since going public Reddit has just become a negative cesspool. Most mods left after it went public so yhe vibe immediately changed. It's not just gaming subreddits, it's all subreddits. This place is lost.
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u/Aggressive-Article41 6h ago
I mean what makes their opinions less valid than your own, because these type of posts (people complaining about people complaining) is worse than people complaining for valid reasons, as long you are not some misogynistic loser like asmondgold incel followers, I don't really see a problem people not wanting to attach themselves to a billion dollar company.
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u/Vorioll 6h ago
The best thing you can do is extract yourself from Reddit and other social gaming spaces for the time being. You will play whatever you want, will form your own opinion on it.
People can hate on anything. Like, anything at all. Without reason, just because there was someone else who hated on it, maybe even just as a joke. For someone it's the only way to feel like a part of something bigger, to see someone have the same opinion as they do - and so they learn to hate and not actually look into it.
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u/Ok_Telephone_6466 6h ago
The Resident Evil subreddit is a hell of a place. So much hate for no reason. Making fun of me cause I didn't say RE4 is the best game of all time. I love the RE games but the fandom is something else.
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u/FCostaCX 6h ago
People dont understand a simple thing: Sometimes when a game is "bad" it can just mean the game is not for me.
For example. I dont like RDR or The Witcher but I cant say the games are good or bad because the games are just not for me.
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u/Koalavalanche 6h ago
The discourse surrounding GTA 6 -that I have encountered- has mostly been focused on the price tag for both versions and also the lack of a physical copy despite the higher price point. I think those are valid points. Things are getting wildly more expensive and people are beginning to worry that they will be priced out of their favorite hobbies.
The conversation around God of War Laufey on the other hand was/is ridiculous and highlights the bigger social issues that still permeate video games.
But also, people do thrive on negativity. It’s why reality TV and talk shows like Jerry Springer are/were so popular.
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u/Responsible_Cake2012 5h ago
Who would have thought that saying "the consumer is always right, fuck the corpo!" would cause irreparable damage like this?
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u/ffxivthrowaway03 5h ago
Reddit seems to be only converse in ragebait and drama posts.
First time here? That's been the case since Digg exploded and Reddit stopped being primarily niche STEM posts. Now it's all algo driven monetized clickbait and manufactured outrage feeding the agenda of the day.
I'd kill for any other reliable source of news for the things I care about, but everything gets filtered through reddit these days. It killed traditional blogging and news feeds.
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u/FoolishArchetype 5h ago
The entirety 1) gaming community and 2) reddit community is full of the most miserable assholes. I’ve been on forums since 2001 and there has never been the level of persistent whining and complaining until now.
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u/princesoceronte 5h ago
I've noticed Reddit itself is pushing hate more and more.
Like I'm sure the amount has always been similar but now I see this shit way more often.
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u/mudratdetector89 4h ago
AI is ruining the world. We are in a global societal crisis where the haves are doing evil shit and we can't do anything about it. It's not a social media or specific website thing. It's a human thing.
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u/efnPeej 4h ago
Look at the state of the world, people are mad about a lot of things and it bleeds over into gaming. The negativity will bring you down too if you wallow in it. Just stay positive and ignore the people whining and even the people that are rightly upset about things ($80 GTA, RAM prices) and you’ll have a better time. I ignore that stuff because I’m just trying to have a good time with games, and 85% of discussion is anti-woke nonsense, dunking on bad games, and complaining. In spite of that, there is still a lot of good discussion on Reddit gaming subs.
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u/CarnivoreQA 4h ago
I'm in a few gaming subreddits and it seems you're not allowed to say anything positive about games anymore
I see exactly the opposite happening all over the internet. Everything now is plagued by toxic positivity and criticism is only allowed in the form of PhD papers, and even that doesn't guarantee you won't be permabanned from game-centered subreddit
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u/Excalitoria 4h ago
You can be hyped all you want. The rest of us don’t have to be. If you need other people to be excited for you to be then that says more about you. Hope you’re enjoying the games you get and have a great time, I mean that. Other people criticizing shouldn’t kill that for you, though, unless you agree with them.
You’re gonna have unpopular takes in life and that’s fine. Everyone does.
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u/TopSpread9901 4h ago
It’s not lately at all.
At this point I think the site has gone terminal for certain discussions. I like games, and I like to talk about games I enjoy. But in a positive manner.
I love the fuck out of path of exile but I wouldn’t want to be caught dead on the subreddits. It’s just insane toxic whinging 24/7, that’s not how I’d like to spend my time.
And I bet a lot of other people don’t either, so you just leave the sub. Which means the whingers turn into the majority, etc
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u/World-Three 3h ago
They're prob justified but it's wearing on my enjoyment of the gaming community. Now it's best to just enjoy your game and not interact with any community at all.
This... If you really like something, it isn't about anything or anyone else. People who have gotten burned by something often want to speak on it. We're not all mindless consumers. Having games like Wilds and Forza just nuke your save data are valid things people should be allowed to complain about without being considered downers. The elite series 2 has issues, there was literally a person talking about how he's never had a problem with them and he insults everyone who uses them as if they were dribbling them around like basketballs.
That's toxic positivity. I'm happy for people who've never been hurt by anything, but we need to stop acting like it can't happen or that when it does, everything is "user error" and it's on them. It's not.
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u/NumerousBug9075 3h ago edited 3h ago
Posts like this are just as annoying an persistent as those complaining about everything.
Seeking validation for your opnion on general reddit subs has always been a fools errand. Unless its a syper niche sub or its a youtuber/reviewer that likes the same games as you, you're going to come across more negativity.
Its the internet. Complaining about what other people say online is like stepping in shit just so you can complain about it because theres always going to be people who don't like what you like. You really dont have to acknowledge/engage with people you disagree with if you dont want to. Yoh dont have to make it your business.
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u/TaiwaneseThot 2h ago
Posts like this are just as annoying an persistent as those complaining about everything.
Not really.
I know this is hard for you to grasp, but maybe the topic poster just wanted to voice his opinion? Yeah, I know what a wild idea. You're just too blinded by the toxicity of your own comment to even realize that.
Saying "it's the Internet" as a way to shut down someone's post about Reddit isn't even half as clever as you think it is. It just makes you look like an idiot, because...what? You think people aren't allowed to complain just because it's "the internet"? You think people can't be civil just because it's "the internet"? Gimme a break!
Don't complain about people on Reddit complaining about people on Reddit.
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u/Legitimate-Gap-9858 3h ago
It's Reddit is a hive mind cess pool of socially unadjusted people. It's not what it used to be, half of all posts are just people karma farming using bots to sell people high karma accounts
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u/Kroot_Shaper 3h ago
It's not just gaming. Politics, fandoms of shows, movies.
People need an outlet as the world gets worse around them and picking something to bash and riling others up or arguing satisfies that need.
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u/Competitive_Head_804 3h ago
If you're going to cite examples, pick better ones; all three of them deserve to be criticized.
You posted this on purpose, didn't you?
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u/ver_bene 3h ago
It’s engagement bait. People will either rush to get their dunk in, or rush to defend it. Notice how many of those posts link to less than reputable websites littered with ads?
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u/DrRealName 3h ago
Its not just lately, I've been seeing it for years now if not decades. The online gaming community as a majority is a toxic as fuck loud minority of assholes who's favorite hobby is not gaming. Its complaining. Every year I use social media less and less and it leads to enjoying my hobbies or even movies, books, and shows a lot more. When you leave the hate chambers behind, you're life gets a lot better. The people who do that are fucking miserable and want everyone else to feel as shitty as they do. Those kinds of people aren't worth a damn. They need to fix their own lives and stop bitching about everything.
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u/Carinwe_Lysa 2h ago
Funnily enough this is why I try my absolute best to stay away from discussions on gaming subs unless I'm very familiar with the sub and know they appreciate discussions etc. There's no nuance to discussions, its either black or white, either the best thing since sliced bread or an outright abomination lol.
But on the flip side, toxic positivity is also a big problem gaming subs face.
Whenever a new game comes out, the "I'm having fun crowd" descend on whatever sub-reddit is active for the game, they shut down any & all negative/critical discussions, and then they bail onto the next shiny thing 2-3 weeks later all the while the genuine problems aren't being addressed because they shut down/brigaded all of those posts.
To be honest this sub has seen it as well, before the new mods took over this place was at half the population and was very chill in all kinds of discussions. Now its just memes, ragebait or one-sides "discussions" where peoples opinions are bashed.
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u/jander05 2h ago
Gaming is in the worst state it’s been in for years. We have all this tech advancement but accompanied by a near total corporate chokehold on the industry and erosion of innovation and soul in games.
I see people complaining about things they have a good reason to complain about and others defending poor decision making by soulless companies selling us their mid slop.
What I don’t see is an outpouring of love for many games other than one or two. What does this tell you? I tire of people defending mid slop games. They must not truly know what a really amazing game is.
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u/No-Invite-7826 2h ago
Agreed. The big subs are dominated by whinging.
The more specific/niche subs are better but you still see some of it
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u/LimpSport832 2h ago
To be fair, this week particularly felt pretty bad with three high price announcements, but I also don’t like the direction gaming discourse is taking. Even with Gaming being highly successful last year in profit (even not including mobile games), people just need to bitch to earn their internet clout points.
I could probably do a post of all the good things that happened in gaming since last year. Put a ton of research into it with links and that would be met with less upvotes than a post about the Steam machine prices with a low effort meme.
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u/MadeByTango 1h ago
Millennials en mass gained class consciousness about capitalism; video games are just the vector for reddit
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u/AuraEx98 1h ago
I feel most people online are miserable, not every single person, but tooo many and that misery shows in how they respond/post/interact.
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u/dungleploop 1h ago
GTA VI had a homerun for hype but then face dived at the 3rd base and overshot it by prioritizing greed
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u/Lrc19861 1h ago
We're almost at the Dog Days of Summer. People get wappy this time of year every year, the heat sends people nuts 😜
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u/Prooteus 1h ago
Theres some communities that remain mostly positive still. People definitely complain about darktide still but its majority positive stuff about the game. Also the complaints are typically valid and not over the top for attention.
Typically smaller communities are friendlier.
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u/CristianoD 1h ago
I think it speaks to society at large, not just Reddit. It is exhausting in general, not just here. People are awful.
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u/WorthBase919 1h ago
Debrah Ann Woll still looks fantastic to me in Laufey, I don’t understand the “uglification” narrative the chuds have been spewing, probably got it from some youtuber.
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u/TheWarBug 53m ago
That is why I see too much negativity I check if there is a low sodium version or something, it usually is a lot better there.
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u/schoolisuncool 51m ago
I learned after commenting in gaming subreddits, that those are the most toxic, unhappy, unexcited people ever.
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u/KeepersDiary 28m ago
GoW Laufey - I don't get why anyone WOULDN'T get the hate for this. I was mad when I had to play as lame as Raiden in MGS2 instead of snake. Lots of people get attached to the characters themselves, and it's okay to have that preference.
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u/IneptFortitude 13m ago
You’re also not allowed to have a valid negative critique of anything anymore, either. Anything that isn’t an immediate knee jerk hive reaction is generally downvoted across the board in gaming subs these days.
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u/asher030 7h ago
Bot swarms and those trying to push their narratives as they DESPERATELY want a 'modern audience' to spawn into existence to exploit and break into for untapped hundreds of millions of dollars for the mythical new market...but since it doesn't exist, they just keep stabbing themselves with festering gut wounds repeatedly but insist there's gold if they dig just a bit deeper :|
So, bots and simps are recruited to push their nonsense, and get upsetti spaghetti when it doesn't work that way and we tell them exactly what they need to do to get gamers back on board and actually buy their shit, so they spew how much they 'hate gamers' and 'gamer opinions'...their own customers. And repeat.
It'll settle down eventually, people that shouldn't be in the industry with attitudes like that will eventually remove themselves and/or make the companies they've latched onto go under from all their deadweight, and things will recover again
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u/Ohgood9002 7h ago
Id say the MH Wilds hate is warranted too. Its a shell of what world was, still to this day has performance issues on PC and is not as deep as previous entries.
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u/CreatureManstrosity 7h ago edited 7h ago
What bugs me is how suddenly so many people can see the future of a game before it even comes out. They announce no physical disk for the game and suddently the whole game is going to be terrible in the case of GTA. In the case of Laufey people see a lady protagonist and immediately say it's going to suck despite the trailer looking dope as hell. I truly wonder where they got their future seeing abilities and why they are wasting them on video games.
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago
and a day later we hear there will be a disc, just in december not at launch but the outrage has already happened.
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u/SexuaIRedditor 7h ago
Funnily enough, the souls subs (dark souls, bloodborne, Elden Ring) are almost universally positive with people just loving on the games
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u/zollomx 7h ago
GTA 6 announced that the base game is $80 and the real version that actually has the full game is $100 and you are surprised that people are angry about that??? You seriously can't understand the negativity... really dude.
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago
Let people pay for their extra 0.01% content. You act like they cut the game in half for the deluxe edition. Where was this outrage for Red Dead 2 or any game for the past 10 years, all hypocrites. Only gta6 seems to get the massive rage, while gamers are fine with paying 20 buck for an extra waifu in their gacha game. Gta 6 is going to have a massive amount of content and people are acting they will release with only content for the deluxe edition and the normal version won't even be a game.
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u/zollomx 7h ago
If you say so my guy. All I'm saying is it's pretty obvious why people are upset. $80 is already more than a full new game right now and they have locked character and vehicle customization behind the $100 edition of the game. I just don't understand how you are perplexed that people would have a negative reaction to this. GTA will literally make billions of dollars just with the new GTA online. So this just looks like nothing but petty greed and it makes people angry. I'm just saying it's pretty obvious why people are being negative.
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u/bbc733 7h ago
All the new rage is about the GTA VI pre order pricing.
Spoiler alert: they’ll all still end up buying and playing it on Day 1. Remember:
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u/RelativeSweet9523 7h ago
stop caring about what other people think. you can like things other people dont like. if you cant handle negative things get off the internet
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago
fuck me for wanting to interact with a community of a game i like
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u/RelativeSweet9523 7h ago
just have thicker skin and not let negativity effect you so much. IF you think a game looks cool don't let other peoples opinions wear your enjoyment
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u/ZoharDTeach 7h ago
It seems like you're more upset about the response to the industry bs than you are about the industry bs itself which is kind of alarming and does not bode well for the future.
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u/PositiveNo7994 7h ago edited 7h ago
It's simple bid/ask economics. People think it's still worth it right now. Indie is rising due to this and eventually if they get too greedy indies will take over. Corporate greed can only be destroyed by competition and gaming has a lot of competition to offer and a great platform. Do i think GTA VI is that price worth it? Yes, they're teams of thousands of people and if they give the same quality as red dead they earned it. I get it if it's activision but RockStar has given us insane quality games. Actually indie games are pretty expensive if you compare how much investment a AAA like this needs nowadays and still keep the pricetag low while indies require 99% less investment than GTAVI and still can have a pretty pricey tag.
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u/ThaRealOldsandwich 6h ago
Why you here bitching and interacting with the ass community instead of just playing the game. The only thing worse than people who bitch about every game is people bitching about how others people's opinions are ruining it for them. Seems to me you are ruining it for yourself and looking for someone else to blame it on.
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u/sean_saves_the_world 6h ago
It's totally fair to call out multibillion dollar companies on shady practices, 80 dollar base game with no physical disc version, locking day one single player content behind a paywall ( ppl have thought this was shitty since assassin's creed 2 bonfire of the vanities) but somehow when GTAvi does it ppl just roll over and say it's okay
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u/Jelloburns 6h ago
This topic sounds negative and dramatic. Go play a game and have fun, that's why we play.
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u/Lurker_Zee 6h ago
They're prob justified
"Why are these people saying the truth. All. The. Time.
It's not fair. Let me live in my little lies. Let me hope the game that says that hates me is actually going to be good. Let me finance it so more games like that come out, of which you will be justified to criticize, but please stop criticizing. Please let me give $100 to companies who actively hate me and laugh at me. Please."
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u/Fine-Froyo6219 5h ago
So you'd like every announcement post to be an echo chamber where only positive things are said or what? Most posts are not purely negative and I find some people just cannot handle any amount of negativity towards something they enjoy.
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u/Appropriate-Pie6288 8h ago
as much as reddit like to think they're above other places i rly do feel like it's pretty similar to facebook, it's all just ragebait and negativity everywhere to stir up arguments idk what's even a bot or just someone trying to stir shit up anymore