Actual YouTube/Twitch drama thread

[Krandor]

I have never not seen Blizzard fans shit all over everything they do and then buy it anyway.

Shit all over the Immortal announcement then proceeded to buy Diablo 3 for the 3rd time to play on Switch.

[Malithar]

It's funny how people say entitlement when it comes to being a paying customer but don't say shit when companies drop the ball.

What should be said if a company drops the ball? I don't think it's limited to gamers, but media as a whole has become a bit of a cluster fuck with the proliferation of social media nonsense. I can't claim to know how things were 10-20 years ago, but I really don't ever recall death threats, doxing, SJW rage wars, boycotts over mundane details, etc, being a thing ever before. Now a days? If you drop the ball on a lore piece, take a movie or game in a direction that some fans don't agree with, delay your product, etc, you're going to get torn apart. I think we simplify the issue by just calling it entitlement, I think that undersells the issue. Death threats to actors or devs still leave me scratching my head.

I miss the good ol' days when if something was bad, you just didn't buy it. Or you bought it and learned the value of doing your own research before making that choice. Anymore, it feels like rather than "live and learn", we just rage online over every detail. Call it fake news, call it entitlement, whatever. I find myself thinking more and more that I agree with whoever called it a "social media epidemic." I forget who said it or where it came from.

[Andalusian girls]

no no that's a totally routine aspect of the exchange of goods and services for fiat currency didn't you ever take an economics course

[Mrbeansman]

What should be said if a company drops the ball? I don't think it's limited to gamers, but media as a whole has become a bit of a cluster fuck with the proliferation of social media nonsense. I can't claim to know how things were 10-20 years ago, but I really don't ever recall death threats, doxing, SJW rage wars, boycotts over mundane details, etc, being a thing ever before. Now a days? If you drop the ball on a lore piece, take a movie or game in a direction that some fans don't agree with, delay your product, etc, you're going to get torn apart. I think we simplify the issue by just calling it entitlement, I think that undersells the issue. Death threats to actors or devs still leave me scratching my head.

I miss the good ol' days when if something was bad, you just didn't buy it. Or you bought it and learned the value of doing your own research before making that choice. Anymore, it feels like rather than "live and learn", we just rage online over every detail. Call it fake news, call it entitlement, whatever. I find myself thinking more and more that I agree with whoever called it a "social media epidemic." I forget who said it or where it came from.

This isnt new you just notice now that social media has give everyone a megaphone to blast it in your ears.

case in point

[Xno Kappa]

mad props to the guy who got the mic and asked them if this was an April fools joke. Best part of the presentation lol

I don’t know much about blizzard or the diablo community, but I had to YouTube this and ended up watching the whole presentation lmao. Shit was so fucking hilarious the rage straight emanating from the audience lol. Felt bad for the Asian dude.

[BaneTheBrawler]

totes entitlement tho xno

[dasva]

What should be said if a company drops the ball?

[dasva]

Oh boy it gets better and better. Seems stocks already dipping a bunch

[Krandor]

Pretty sure the stock dropping has very little to do with the announcement of whatever games Blizzard is developing and everything to do with the recent earnings call, which showed less then expected numbers for Black Ops 4 and Destiny 2

[Fiye]

I mean considering they've literally been handing out Destiny 2 for free and already discounted Forsaken yup. Saw this coming.

[kuronosan]

Biggest problem has been the steady decline of user-generated content.

Games are all virtual fucking duplicates of each other.

That's just my opinion though. When gamers were engaged to make new content for their favorite titles it allowed for endless innovation that spawned some great mods.

You just don't see that anymore.

[BaneTheBrawler]

playin' the wrong games then.


Civilization, Paradox's Stellaris, Kerbal Space Program, Homeworld, Banished, Skyrim, Fallout, Sins of a Solar Empire, XCOM


those are just the games i have installed right now that have huge modding communities actively encouraged by the devs. granted, some are old, but others still get regular content updates.

[Cail]

I just havent been able to get into the newest Civ...

[Andalusian girls]

that's probably just because it isn't very good.

but the entitled defecatory pugilist is correct, Kuro you are high as balls if you think there's less mod content than before, or the even more absurd claim all games are duplicates of each other. the Bethesda RPGs, the Witcher, anything Paradox releases, anything Rockstar releases, anything Bioware releases, Minecraft, Civ, Total War, Kerbal, FTL, Dragon Age, etc etc etc. everything from total conversion to fanmade narratives to quality of life to shinier graphics, I don't think there's ever been a richer PC mod community than there is now, greatly aided by Steam Workshop.

[Dotsudoku]

the entitled defecatory pugilist.

[Xno Kappa]

Hot take maybe, but Witcher 3 is completely unfucking playable without mods to fix that shitty ass inventory system.

[Krandor]

Really only a hot take if people have only played on console.

[Andalusian girls]

think I dropped 20ish mods on the Witcher 3 before I ever started playing it imagine going to vanilla would be ghastly

[Andalusian girls]

[Cail]

Witcher 3 on console checking in