First, stop demonizing customers you’ll never have.
Tech industry always: give us all your data please, we need your data to know what you want and think. Just one more piece of data please?
Tech industry after receiving free and voluntary data: pls stop ಠ_ಠ
Last I checked, Jeff Kaplan – a game designer – doesn’t really represent the tech industry? So this comment kinda comes off as an unhinged non-sequitur.
Ok.
Thanks for your free and voluntary data.
For those of you who (like me) have no fucking clue what the ex Blizzard CEO is doing
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2550530/The_Legend_of_California/
Not CEO. Kaplan was a VP at Blizz.
Thank you! I was like “who?”
I look forward to him blaming others when it flops. What a loser, we all remember overwatch Jeff, retire.
Oh Lord, no.
Look, he’s not really wrong per se. The internet does run disproportionately on outrage, and plenty of people judge shit that they’ve got no right to be judging because they don’t actually spend time thinking about what makes good art. And not listening to people who’re determined to hate you is always healthy.
But another open-world multiplayer survival game? Really? At some point, this becomes like complaining you’ve got a coyote problem after you left a bunch of roadkill out in your yard. You can’t just make yet another entry into an incredibly overdone genre (seemingly without a USP, no less!) and not expect people to get tired of it.
Some subset of people will be into this game. The rest of us can just ignore it. No skin off our backs.
Looks very pretty though. And is there currently a Western open world survival game?
The name of his studio, “Kintsugiyama”, is too long. Can I clip the “sugiy”? It sounds better! :^) …okay, disregard the shitty joke.
Serious now: Kaplan and Ford’s takes are fairly reasonable. Forums online (including Reddit… and Lemmy/Piefed, by the way) seem to trigger on people a natural instinct to fit in, as part of a group. This leads to the adoption of similar values and judgements, and in turn to direct praise and criticism towards the same things — even when you’re in no position to do it, because you didn’t experience it nor plan to. In practice this means yes, it’s harder to speak “I like it” when everyone else dislikes it.
And people can get reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally loud with this shite.
Also, I like the way they voiced this. It’s really hard to misconstrue it as “don’t criticise things”. Criticism is often healthy, sometimes even really harsh criticism; it’s just that sometimes it needs some experience to be even constructive, and that’s the case here.
On the one hand Kaplan is right, people should STFU instead of giving their opinion on something they don’t really care about in the first place. But on the other hand the masses don’t complain about good games so there’s also something the devs can do. I get that it comes across as “just make good games, duh” but it doesn’t take a lot of effort to see that another “competitive live service FPS” or “Ubisoft style open world adventure” or “extraction shooter” is going to be met with apathy. Maybe start by first figuring out what people might actually want to play instead of chasing boring trends. If you find your target audience they will cut the noise of the morons who don’t care in the first place.
His complaint also feels like he is tired of people.complaining “This cartoon horse sim game for 10 year olds doesn’t have high def fuckable avatars, RRRRREEEEEEEE” nonsense.
“There are certain forums or Reddits or whatever where it’s just like, yeah, that one’s on ignore from now on. They’re not actually productive in any way,” Kaplan said. “It’s just who can get the most points by being outraged. I’m bored with it.”
Well there’s your problem. You’re being ragebated by bots, trolls, shills, basement dwellers (the ones who don’t shower - the ones who shower are fine), and the perpetually online.
Consider doing yourself a favor by never exposing yourself to the shit that comes out of that anus.
Well, good luck with that. I have my watch history disabled on YouTube and I watch no such content, but YouTube still pushes the likes of Asmongold on me. Imagine what it’s like for people whose history tells YouTube they like content related to gaming. Say you hear about Dustborn and you search for it on YouTube to check out what it’s about. What do you see?
I think having your watch history disabled probably makes that worse. If you don’t give YouTube data on what you watch, then it’ll always push the most trendy, popular stuff on you. Before I started using the Unhook extension recently, my YT recommendations never included Asmongold for example. Because YouTube has figured out that I don’t watch that kind of stuff.
I was referring to Reddit, not YouTube.
I use FreeTube all the time. If you are picky about what you watch, then there’s a lot of great creators on there.
YouTube is not a forum. YouTube shorts has the same issues though.
Edit: also YouTube comments is a cesspool but I forgot they exist lol.
But complaining about things that have nothing to do with me IS my game. :-(
