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Why The Gaming Community Is Failing

Realizing that we are playing someone else’s story is not always the easiest thing to accept as gamers. Somehow we think that when we pay our money for the game, we are entitled to an experience we think is best. Never mind the fact that developers have spent years if not decades and untold amounts of cash to produce what we now have in front of us. We paid our hard earned money on this game, so it damn well better be everything we want it to be.

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Timesplitter143959d ago (Edited 3959d ago )

What people think of games is always "in their opinion" by default even if they don't explicitly specify it. And they have the right to express their opinion even if the devs spent time and money and love on this game.

We don't have to put "In my opinion, ..." before every sentence we write.

And just because someone says they don't like a game doesn't mean they think the game was supposed to cater to their specific tastes in the first place. It just means they don't like the game.

Richard Cypher3959d ago

Wow so much text for not making any interesting point !

CrossingEden3959d ago

When does it end? When do we as a community stop being so elitist and privileged to think that every game we buy needs to cater to every single fantasy that enters into our brains? If a game is broken, that is one thing and I will be right alongside you flaming away to the developers to fix the issues. If a game ends in a way that I don’t approve of, well tough titty. I’m looking at you, Mass Effect 3 haters.
-this is a very interesting point and rings true, gamers now are whiny entitled brats who bask in negativity and constantly hate on everything that days show their face and not meet their expectations and then even have the audacity to call developers lazy, when video games are harder to produce then the biggest budgeted movies, it doesn't make an interesting point because it talks about people like YOU

Timesplitter143959d ago

I think you're taking things too seriously. Do you think people shouldn't be allowed to dislike games or... ?

Imalwaysright3959d ago

Bioware falsely advertised their game. They deserved all the bashing they got.

Richard Cypher3958d ago

Wow so much text for not making any interesting point !

I'm joking :p

Edward753959d ago

Great article. Some very good points throughout.

Philoctetes3959d ago

Terrible article. Yes, developers are free to make games however they want, and they're free to tell the stories they want to tell how they want to tell them. Just like how authors get to write the books they want to write and directors get to make the films they want to make.

And guess what? I'm free to criticize an author for writing a lousy book, and I'm free to criticize a director for screwing up a movie. If games want to be taken seriously as vehicles for artistic expression, then I should be able to criticize them accordingly.

For instance, the ending the Mass Effect 3 sucked. It made no sense, and it gutted the entire premise of the franchise in 15 minutes. Artistically, it was a complete failure. Contrast that with the ending to The Last of Us, which was brilliant. I'm not going to get into an argument on that last one since I don't want to spoil it, but that was the best ending to a video game that I've ever played, period.

And that's the thing. The same aesthetic sense that allows me to praise the writing, acting, and plot of the TLoU is the same thing that allows me to say unapologetically that the ME3 ending was shit. If you can't criticize games when they suck, then you can't praise them when they succeed. It's time to grow up.

Roccetarius3959d ago

The ''ending'' to Mass Effect 3 pretty much soured my entire experience with the franchise. Never have i been so dissapointed before, and never will they gain my trust again.

Bioware should just stick to games without choices, because in the end, it just ends up being meaningless in this generation and the next.

e-p-ayeaH3959d ago (Edited 3959d ago )

This article is taking things to seriously people´s opinions need to respected.

SonyPS43959d ago

Criticism is a part of creating a piece of art you want an audience to consume. A video game shouldn't be any different.

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken1d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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Indie hit Dredge is getting its own movie adaptation

Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.

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The INDIE Live Expo 2024 event is to feature over 100 game titles

INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.