which of the following do you think has had the biggest negative impact on gaming, Ganker?
>discord
>twitch and other ecelebery
>gaming journos and "news" sites/channels
>microtransactions
>trans people
>something else
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Trannies
It’s between e-celebs and game journos. Discord’s pretty bad too but I’d rather be in a boring dead air lobby than have games neutered cause some journo or celeb is too much of a fricking tard to play it right. Or have them encourage more painful movie game shlock mediocrity by pretending it’s the second coming of christ.
i really hate game journos
in order from most negatively impacting to least:
>something else (zoomers)
>discord
>microtransactions
>trans people
>twitch and other ecelebery
>gaming journos and "news" sites/channels
zoomers? really?
Money determines everything. They make more money on collecting your data, using it to manipulate people, then lowering the amount of effort that they use to make the game. They don't even have a reason to make games as we knew them , they now just put all their profits into learning how to manipulate and drain their audiences with growing efficiency.
>discord
If your community got torn appart by discord drama, power-hungry homosexuals and circlejerking, it was a bad community to begin with.
>twitch and other ecelebery
It's counterbalanced. Some of the biggest ecelebs are actually real gamers and not just posers.
>gaming journos and "news" sites/channels
Problem here is the loud minority. Vast majority of gaming "journalists" just write unnoticeable articles that get posted on Ganker anyway - the screechy blue-hair type are just for polemic's sake.
Anyone with anything worthwhile to say turned to content creation anyway.
>microtransactions
Actually a good thing. You can get many games at a reduced price and target whales in game.
>trans people
If your "community" can be ruined by some screeching homosexual in a dress, it deserved to die anyway. And depending on whether they're the autistic or gay kind of troon, they'll probably turn into a modder or lolcow. If their mere existence bothers you, have sex.
>something else
Big studios NEVER trying to innovate gameplay wise to reassure investors who want their quarterly returns. That's the poison.
An actual fricking moron wrote this garbage.
Seethe double digits secondary.
I didn't understand a word you just typed so I'm assuming you were born after 9/11 which means you don't get to voice your opinion on what killed video games.
Yes I do, sneethe.
Games Journalists, easily, since every other negative influence gets amplified through them.
>eSports (It's impact can be seen especially in the once great Valve and Blizzard. Everything has to be balanced instead of fun now.)
>Microtransactions/Loot Boxes
>In game economies
>Consoomer Culture
>Streambait games
>Focus Groups/Market Research/Metric driven design
>Pants on head moronic game testers
>Cryptomining
>NFTs (Squeenix sold most of their Eidos assets to THQ/Embracer to buy NFTs and Crypto right before the crash. This would be hilarious if I didn't just buy $900 of SQNXF stock right before.)
>Whiners who b***h about having to be always online and games costing too much therefore they are forced to pirate. All while they b***h about this on the internet (which they're always on) from their ~$3K RGB rigs and peripherals.
>Cutesy and coomer character designs forced into aesthetics that are otherwise mature and serious to cover all bases and appeal to [s] the lowest common denominator [/s] every denomination.
>Compulsively Lying Outrage Grifters like The Quartering, Ryan Kinkle, Geeks and Gamers, and One Angry Gamer
>Ugly Y2K aesthetic peripherals marketed to tweens from the late 90s.
>Trannies and BLM politics
>Photorealism meme
>Closed wall garden markets
>GamerGate (Admit it. Things only got worse.)
>Pay 2 Win
>Konami and Pachinko Machines
>John Riccitiello
>Bobby Kotick
ecelebs
microtransactions by far, devs do so much scummy shit with them that is just making games worse.
Game journos are just scum but as far as im aware their influence is getting less and less over time.
Trannies are speedrunning becoming worse than microtransactions but they aren't quite there yet.
Eceleb homosexualry is whatever, sure they're annoying but i don't see how they affect single player games at all outside of fanbase shit.
Discord is whatever, its annoying to have everything try to be some kind of multiplayer shit, and people putting resources in discords that should be on wikis or websites, but its tertiary stuff so meh.
World of Warcraft
The root of all problems was women getting into vidya. They pulled all the other shit you listed in there and much more.
Realism
hard to say, all of them have had terrible impact on gaming
death of creativity. everything is now becoming a different flavor of far cry with daily chores.
how the frick does discord have a negative impact?
this thing has been up for years just no voice chat, its called mIRC, theres communities for literally everything
step up your game nerd
Allows for a quicker and more explicit structuring of communities such that hierarchies end up being established with direct ways to enact it via server rules which are easier to set up for the layman on discord.
Corporate greed.
Discord does not affect game localization but trannies with an agenda, do.
i really hate that gamergate got co-opted and baited.
i fricking hate all journalist. but video game journalist are the worst bunch they're all fricked in the head and hate every single one of us. its the only time they've ever got a comeuppance.
Gaming becoming big business is the only reason it went to shit. Now it's all about turning every last thing into "resource" and squeezing every last bit of profit from it without doing any actual work.
Women
journos and trannies are the same tribe