This guy gets it. That IGN rant read like something you’d might find on a alt-right blog.

It’s not even astonishing anymore how little gamers know or even want to know about how games are made.

Another important variable is that, historically, that $70 is extremely low for what a lot of “average gamers” expect from a game. A top-tier RPG in 1995 cost $80, which is about $160 in 2023 dollars.

Have you ever had a job before

Yikes wtf

fuck the deadlines

I gotta push back on that. Like if any devs wanted to be lazy and just phone it in, then they wouldn’t be developing for games in the first place.   The same skillsets could see any dev making more money for less work in just about any other industry.

“I guess on some level, I find it unpleasant to identify so proudly as a consumer/customer.”

The idea of trying to enjoy art without acknowledging the conditions under which that art was created is just so foreign to me.

My favourite take on any of this is always ‘the devs are greedy shits’ as if they can control the state of the projects they work on to any impactful degree past the ticket of work they’ve got to slave over for that particular missed tea with their loved ones this weekend.

“I was only pretending to suck” is a perfectly valid thing to do for the sake of a twist

What *isn’t* valid, IMO, is leaving the revelation of that twist for two seasons later when casual viewers will have likely forgotten who this dude was to begin with. 

Still better than reading about some Twitch dweeb.

Gamers and cringey fascists, name a more iconic duo

So they’re admitting Florida = a burning building? Finally something we agree on

To be fair, Florida is a burning building, these dumb fucks just don’t realize they're the ones who lit and are pouring gas on the fire

Life is a game and that’s a video so the location of the article is valid.

this is not fine

Easy to tell based on reading the article!

Given the history of casualties at Black Friday sales which are moderated and where people still have to pay for stuff, I think it’s safe to assume that a huge, unmoderated crowd of people trying to get free stuff could very easily descend into chaos. Fights, trampling, etc. There’s a reason there are regulations for…

Yeah plenty of people, places, etc manage to run giveaways and promotions without this happening.