Inspiring quotes topic
Nov 13, 2013 16:18:03 GMT -5
Post by Chromeo on Nov 13, 2013 16:18:03 GMT -5
Anonymous asked: Why are so many gaming journalists quick to condemn and attack the entire consumer base of games?
Because the gaming press exists to get consumers to purchase things. Not good things. Not valuable things. Any things. And when consumers get uppity by voicing their complaints they snarl and bare their teeth and attack them.
Ever notice how gamers are a diverse group of many different races, nationalities, and beliefs, EXCEPT when someone like Sessler or Marcus Beer are clicking their tongues and crying about something? Whenever they do that all gamers are racist 19 year old white males living in their parent’s basement. Can’t have it both ways, champs.
They like to pretend ‘gamers’ are some microcosm that consume no other media and have no other hobby, because that’s the only way their bullshit makes any sense. If these same people they decry as venomous savages consumed other media they’d have to answer the question of ‘why doesn’t the tv and movie viewing audience respond as venomously as gamers’. Why don’t the editors of Field and Stream ever get attacked? Or Empire Magazine?
And since they won’t, I will. The collusion of publishers and the press has created an abrasive, venomous consumer base. This is entirely unique to video games. In a perfect world, if someone completely fails as a result of their own incompetence, they either resign in shame, are penalized by their employer, or are lambasted by the press. They are, for lack of a better term, disciplined for their failing. If a terrible movie is made, it will be savaged by critics and the studio will probably fire some people and be more wary of working with the director and actors in the future. Same for books, and TV, and everything else.
This doesn’t happen with video games. Just look at what’s happening. Microsoft rushed out an expensive underpowered console that’s already having performance problems and what’s the response from the press? IT DOESN’T MATTER STOP CARING ABOUT BUY IT ANYWAY IT’S STILL GOOD WAAAH. So consumers get pissed off and attack the ‘journalists’ they (correctly) perceive as fucking them over and then the company they (correctly) think is trying to screw them.
Or, to shorten this to a single sentence: In every other industry, the press serves the public. In video games, the press serves the corporations, which causes consumers to become venomous.
Because the gaming press exists to get consumers to purchase things. Not good things. Not valuable things. Any things. And when consumers get uppity by voicing their complaints they snarl and bare their teeth and attack them.
Ever notice how gamers are a diverse group of many different races, nationalities, and beliefs, EXCEPT when someone like Sessler or Marcus Beer are clicking their tongues and crying about something? Whenever they do that all gamers are racist 19 year old white males living in their parent’s basement. Can’t have it both ways, champs.
They like to pretend ‘gamers’ are some microcosm that consume no other media and have no other hobby, because that’s the only way their bullshit makes any sense. If these same people they decry as venomous savages consumed other media they’d have to answer the question of ‘why doesn’t the tv and movie viewing audience respond as venomously as gamers’. Why don’t the editors of Field and Stream ever get attacked? Or Empire Magazine?
And since they won’t, I will. The collusion of publishers and the press has created an abrasive, venomous consumer base. This is entirely unique to video games. In a perfect world, if someone completely fails as a result of their own incompetence, they either resign in shame, are penalized by their employer, or are lambasted by the press. They are, for lack of a better term, disciplined for their failing. If a terrible movie is made, it will be savaged by critics and the studio will probably fire some people and be more wary of working with the director and actors in the future. Same for books, and TV, and everything else.
This doesn’t happen with video games. Just look at what’s happening. Microsoft rushed out an expensive underpowered console that’s already having performance problems and what’s the response from the press? IT DOESN’T MATTER STOP CARING ABOUT BUY IT ANYWAY IT’S STILL GOOD WAAAH. So consumers get pissed off and attack the ‘journalists’ they (correctly) perceive as fucking them over and then the company they (correctly) think is trying to screw them.
Or, to shorten this to a single sentence: In every other industry, the press serves the public. In video games, the press serves the corporations, which causes consumers to become venomous.