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Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Whozzat?

former Blizzard vice president and game designer Jeff Kaplan made his first public appearance since leaving the World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer in 2021,

Oh. Anyway, we like to shit on games we won't play because we like to expose our (sometimes lack of) reason to do so. Diablo Immoral? No, thanks, stick that shit up your ass. Pretty easy to ignore people that loudly declare "I'll never play XYZ", so no need to get worked up over that

"It's not difficult to shit on something," Ford said on-stream. "Apparently, it takes a ton of courage to say, 'Hey, I actually like this thing. I don't care that you don't like it. I like it.'"

Yeah, because we have seen how brave people have to be to say that they loved Baldur's Gate 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring or Outer Wilds. Oh wait, no, people have praised those games to exhaustion.

Unnecessary roughness in internet discourse isn't a new phenomenon by any means, but we're now living alongside a media ecosystem that thrives on loudly, insistently, and often preemptively declaring that a game is dead and irredeemable instead of, you know, ignoring something you're not interested in. While no single game developer's frustration will do much to change it, it's nice to know when your exhaustion is shared.

Fair point, the ragebait and engagement bait are fucking tiresome. Even the most civilized person becomes little more than an angry monkey with a keyboard when browsing the internet.