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Full headline, due to the usual reasons: "'When Did It Become Trendy to Hate on a New Game?' — as Highguard Struggles to Win Over the Internet, Video Game Developers Come to Its Defense"
There are only two things I know about this game. One, this game apparently started getting shat upon from the first moment they showed it off at the Game Awards or whenever. Two, it is a "free-to-play 'PvP raid shooter.'" Of those two distinct facts that I know about this game, the latter one is the far bigger catalyst to my utter apathy toward this game, because I have great antipathy toward that particular type of video game, just in general. The only reason I'm even making a post about this game at all is because the former one is morbidly interesting to me.
What's really funny to me is that the three developers IGN is quoting here as defending this game are a veritable "Who's Who" of "says stupid things" types. They literally quoted irrelevant has-been Cliffy B of all people, for fuck's sake. I'm kind of surprised that they didn't scrape a quote from Tim Sweeney, given he's been on a real runrecently of saying stupid things, though I do still have reason to add the "fuck epic games store" tag (i.e. the de facto "fuck epic" tag), given IGN found a different Epic head asshole from which to scrape a quote from 卐 for this thing.
(EDIT) The argument seems to be that Internet assholes are attacking the game's developers, rather than (just) the game itself. I haven't personally seen that myself, but then I haven't been looking for it, either, so I don't doubt it a bit. The Internet has a lot of assholes, after all, all of them constantly dumping shit on anything and anyone in spew range. However, what should be known by now is that trying to appeal to the humanity and empathy of Internet assholes and get them to stop being big meanies typically has the exact opposite effect than the one desired. That's just how Internet assholes function. Especially when the appeal apparently is "would you pwease think of the poor widdle video game devewopers." (/EDIT)
Anyway, I'll just leave this here:
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There are only two things I know about this game. One, this game apparently started getting shat upon from the first moment they showed it off at the Game Awards or whenever. Two, it is a "free-to-play 'PvP raid shooter.'" Of those two distinct facts that I know about this game, the latter one is the far bigger catalyst to my utter apathy toward this game, because I have great antipathy toward that particular type of video game, just in general. The only reason I'm even making a post about this game at all is because the former one is morbidly interesting to me.
What's really funny to me is that the three developers IGN is quoting here as defending this game are a veritable "Who's Who" of "says stupid things" types. They literally quoted irrelevant has-been Cliffy B of all people, for fuck's sake. I'm kind of surprised that they didn't scrape a quote from Tim Sweeney, given he's been on a real run
(EDIT) The argument seems to be that Internet assholes are attacking the game's developers, rather than (just) the game itself. I haven't personally seen that myself, but then I haven't been looking for it, either, so I don't doubt it a bit. The Internet has a lot of assholes, after all, all of them constantly dumping shit on anything and anyone in spew range. However, what should be known by now is that trying to appeal to the humanity and empathy of Internet assholes and get them to stop being big meanies typically has the exact opposite effect than the one desired. That's just how Internet assholes function. Especially when the appeal apparently is "would you pwease think of the poor widdle video game devewopers." (/EDIT)
Anyway, I'll just leave this here:
Link to comic
Link to comic
