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it is a video game

Game is bad (like for real), but the wave of pure ragebait content and chaos in the reviews... it's just too much. Many reviews don't even address the core issues with this game. This is just hate-watch farming.

We gotta bring back bulling just for the people who take these videos seriously.

That hate feedback loop is horrific. I'm so so tired of it. People are welcome to dislike what they dislike, but this relentless revelry in failure is just gross.

Did any of these people even play the game? (except the upper right thumbnail, I already read the context.)

Had to leave that subreddit after being a fan of the boys since the start, they get hyperfixated on a new thing to shit on and don't stop until they find something else to do so. Pat tends to throw gasoline on the flames himself, too. (well, mostly left cause transphobia, but)

as someone who frequents that subreddit I was kinda baffled by the whole thing like I have no interest in Highguard but that doesn't mean I want it to fail

I watched a similar type of video where the guy’s biggest complaint was that there was no scoreboard and called it woke trash. Like what???

I hate to be harping on about this game to no one in particular but I don’t think there has been a clearer sign in a decade of CLEAR signs that everyone in the gaming space is addicted to nothing but negativity and wants a Concord every week to dogpile, not even just chuds. It’s bad. Unhealthy.

🌙 ok i will take the L on this one, i was literally just comparing the design in the cover art/first thumbnail to the bottom two and it looked like a completely different color and shape

tbh I think Highguard's greatest sin is requiring Secure Boot/TPM and Easter Anti-Cheat. And maybe the designs on the guns being boring as shit. The game itself is just... "Meh".

Concord's sin was being a $40 mediocre hero shooter in the world of awesome and established F2P hero shooters.

That is fair. There are so many Vtubers. She's funny and good at shooter games. I watch her sometimes.

Dokibird, but the video isn't hers. It's secondhand clippers getting in on the grift.

This baby YouTuber meme is getting out of hand.

The dude on the last two is so pathetic in every single thumbnail. Also kinda cringe to copycat some of that toxic white supremacist style with the red and white capslock furry title on the side of the thumbnail (cough cough the quartering)

It's pretty fucking bad, honestly. People can't just ignore something, they HAVE to say something

And this is why I'm extremely careful with the videos I watch on youtube

why would they think its too much? it sells, it get views and engagement. this works on many viewers, just like tabloids work irl

We need a second industry crash just so these guys die off without anything to click bait about for a year

Yes, it IS much, it IS tired, and I DID push back

It'd probably get mixed reviews and die off over a bunch of months instead. Which still isn't great, but a lot less painful than the initial trailer reaction, combined with this.

I can see why the devs wanted to shadow drop the game with no advertising lead up. Small controlled group of early adopters vs a large influx of folk with preconceived opinions

It's incredible how many of these outrage farmers follow such a predictable pattern of editing a character/actress's (let's be real, it's almost always an actress) face to look exaggerated and crying for these sorts of thumbnails. Real "I made you look ugly and that means I'm right," vibes.

Man I am exhausted just looking at these thumbnails. How do people sit through the actual videos?

Are those last two AI generated pictures of John Highguard? 🤢

Clickbait negativity grifters. It's a trend on social media and since it's actually a current succesfull method to farm impressions, they'll keep doing it. Best thing to do is to ignore, DON'T comment (that adds to their numbers) click: "don't recommend channel" and move on. They feeds on reactions.

I thought this was the baby meme again for a full 5 seconds lmao

Grifters gotta grift. This is like crack to reactionary YouTubers.

I'd amend that slightly to guys who have nothing going on but hating games they were never going to play anyway.

We are in one hell of an age

well, yeah, everyone is dramatic about video games these days

I will say, Geoff is absolutely not making their situation better doing is weird victory lap on Twitter.

Hey, fair. Didn't even register that, but The Gamers™ are just as racist as they are transphobic and homophobic.

I forgive Dokibird but everyone else goes in the bin.

Everyone should quit getting mad about videogames.

I wish someone cared as much about me as chuds do about a game that nobody has ever heard of but represents and makes-or-breaks "woke" forever

people acting like they've been stabbed in the back by their best friend because a studio that just popped up put out a free game that's not for everyone

This game was announced a month ago, I don't believe any of these clowns sincerely give a shit about Highguard either way

dokibird innocent

Adding monetization to YouTube was a mistake

This is the fundamental joke about the baby memes.

yeah idk how anyone has patience for the discourse. the riffing was funny but the "culture war" is so pointless. play other games

it’s not a very good game and that sucks because of the kind of people who love it when a game fails

I'm guessing you're being general, and you're right, but dokibird had nothing to do with it.

In the future the thumbnails will emerge from the screen and scream directly into your mouth

It sucks because there are legitimate reasons to hate the game and everything it stands for (forced root access, the deliberate exclusion of Linux users when it otherwise runs well on Linux, etc.) but all the reactionary ragebait grifters are turning discussion around the game into a shitshow.

Financial incentive to catch the first whiff of a product and take it to the most extreme. Nuance is dead, dopamine society, nothing can be just "okay"

These guys are just as predatory as payday loans and gambling. It's an attack from a distinctly antisocial and unproductive attention economy on a productive if chaotic and unsustainable industry.

I think it’s cool that gamers have made themselves insanely angry about not seeing enough advertisements (?)

Buncha savages in this town.

Welp they ruined the fun of making fun of it. Pack it up.

i don't really like geoff keighley but what's he done to deserve being put on that thumbnail exactly

I think people just want to cash in on a failing hero shooter cause they missed their chance with concord

That K*ighley thumbnail is hysterical at least.

How else to get views but to catastrophize

THE INSANE TRUTH

ALT TEXT chud. Its so fucking easy. Its inclusive. Protestors are being blinded with chemical agents but you are still too lazy to alt text.

They didn't even do that

It is

>angry white man yelling on cover (literally their demographic) >game is still somehow "woke" or whatever God these people are such pathetic piss babies.

Honestly I didn't even know this game existed until like 3 days ago. I mostly just play 3-4 games and thats it. I might try others out if I hear about them but I live under a rock, partially on purpose

The flavor of the day riffing, they will move onto something else by friday