The era of features no one wants seems directly aligned with the era where CEOs openly insult their customers.
- Huge empty map. Check.
- Base building. Check.
- Mining. Check.
- Fortifications. Check.
- Horses. Check.
- Guns. Check.
- Multiplayer. Check.
- Not giving a fuck about feedback from people about your tone deaf game. Check.
The spirit of highguard lives on
Where did they talk about the game aside from the mention at the beginning of the article? This isn’t a breakdown of the game they’re making.
It’s a breakdown of a guy leading the production of a shitty game complaining about people who speak negatively about shitty games without paying for them first.
The most generous interpretation is that he knows his game is going to get shit on from a great height and it’s already bothering him.
The link in the article takes you to the steam page for the game, has a trailer and the rundown thereof
Only thing the game page doesn’t clarify about is PvP, makes it seem like the multiplayer is more coop than versus but I can’t speak to the availability or lack thereof
Not that I’d be enticed to go dig deeper if that’s what they want to tell the world before their game is even out.
He probably isn’t wrong but when you present your work, it will be subject to criticism. Even if the criticism is annoying as fuck, it’s going to happen.
Games should be criticized and if companiess don’t like it, they should make better games instead of being greedy assholes that churn out overpriced enshittified half-finished garbage.
Yeah if you dont want criticism then you cant publish. Just play it by yourself with your dev team lol.
Like bröther you are trying to sell something, people will look at things before they buy them duh???
There is still a legitimate reason to debate about the tone and intention of criticism.
Problem is that enough people who receive fair criticism and can’t handle that, call it unreasonable and unfair and thereby muddle the debate massively.
It’s funny how really good games somehow never have this problem.
Apparently the Principal Skinner meme is not well know enough still.
Hear that sound? It’s the sound of the other shoe dropping.
For years we’ve suspected that these executives have been making soulless games not for gamers, but for shareholders.
We suspected they didn’t give a fuck about gamers; here’s one actually saying it.
“We don’t need to hear that you weren’t into it” was also a common sentiment expressed on Epstein island, now that I think about it. Maybe someone should search the Trump-Epstein files for this guy’s name. And either way, pay close attention to him in the future. This guy may be going places. Hopefully cell block one.
I was into it until you assholes shit all over Overwatch, and I’ll complain about it as much as I like.
Also, fuck Activision and Blizzard.
Having read the article and watched the clip they linked, I agree with him.
People are way too free with their criticisms, even when they haven’t even interacted with what they’re criticizing in any way.
Yeah, for the people that read the article, it’s obvious he’s talking about trolls, not actual players of the game.
Kaplan was also the reason overwatch was ever any good, and he fought to keep 6v6 going and was fired for pushing back against the ceo
Anyone who says “no one cares” knows that everybody cares.
We’ll see. I do give a fuck about what’s installed on my computer. Some complaints are worth sharing, specially if they help other consumers and devs can later correct mistakes.
Taste in games is subjctive. But there are 0 reasons not to voice personal concerns about the game. If we only accept positive feedback, it makes it super easy to control public opinion?
Eh, there’s plenty of feedback out there that just bad. Bad in a sense of being misinformed, wrong, or misleading. You ever open up the steam community comments for an update of a popular game? Most comments are just reaction bait, its really not worth reading through and masks any actual genuine feedback.
Sensitive much?
This has happened before and it will happen again. Jeff, just stop complaining and carry on with your life.
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.
Funny thing, after years of criticizing Starfield for poor quality, people suddenly begun to white knight about whether DLSS 5 was properly respecting Heller’s intended rendition in Starfield. I’m sure they totally bothered to check the artist’s or their player’s opinion on it. To be honest, I’m sure they do care - some people only seem to find community in finding a shared hate.
Starfield patch coming up later this year. It’ll remove some loading screens but generally won’t change the game, yet to all the haters out there - sorry buds, gonna enjoy it!
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