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That + bots 💯 The uptick has been insane since the weekend. YT and IG are the *worst*. I literally called someone out on their BS and lack of basic knowledge on some of the teams. Got a ♥️ by someone else that was also calling the dude out, but silence from OP. Did the truth hurt?? 😂☠️

The toxic bro culture in video gaming has to go. It's been around since the 80s with competitive jerks sitting at arcades & trying to prove how 'manly' they were by getting high scores on Galaxia. Today, it's 1st POV PvP 'kill counts'. So friggin' stupid & spotlights the fragility of dudes today.

The devs are now responsible for managements decisions apparently lol.

i met someone on this site who said they think the gaming industry should be more like the music industry bc oh individual artists get respect and that game development shouldn't be a real career gamers are not worth spending your life to please

Those people don’t even like games, they just miss their childhood when they weren’t so angry all the time.

reddit removed the ability to sort comment, like, at all, so the first few comments on any post about game layoffs have made me want to walk into the sea

The crazy thing is that they are still so passionate that great AAA games do still get made, despite what you described from the top, and also despite the fact that a bunch of pieces of shit online will be sending them death threats over even the smallest perceived slight.

"I'm not seeing this anywhere" people really are blinding themselves when you have people straight up saying a crash would be "good for the industry"

Even worse I saw people kinda seeing it as a necessary step snf now xbox will be making good games now that have way less of a workforce

Need a post launch layoff protection clause at this point, idk how many gamers tm realise that their seqels are worse off because of this

The sins of the C-suite should be felt by *checks notes* all the programmers

The worst part of any hobby is the fandom. They destroy that which they claim to love.

So many of them are convinced that layoffs happen if games are bad or sell bad and can't be told otherwise even if the opposite staring them directly in the face.

Ah yeah these gamers, y'know.... losers.

People think that?

They're so delusional, they legit believe these layoffs mean better games are going to be made because anyone who got fired was a "bad dev" and now there's room for "good devs" to step in.

It's like watching the restaurant owner cut off the arms of all the cooks and going "oh boy, they're gonna be so much better at cooking now"

there is a lot of support too yeah and i would assume the majority of the audience are mostly normal guys whose response would be to hear about this and go wait man what? that sucks. but this kinda guy is still unfortunately a loud vocal minority and enough of a presence to depress me

They send death threats and worse to the stork too though lol!

Wild to consider that maybe the Gamers are so vile and toxic that they'll kill the entire industry they claim to love and care about, just to, I dunno, get revenge? Own the libs? So wildly irrational

A lot of these people are assholes Also, for some reason they don't blame the corpos

i dont believe this many gamers would be happy about this they’re either 1) gay (grifters or posers who pretend to play games) or 2) fake (bots or shills)

Psst.. “number”, not “amount”. They’re people, not sugar.

Everything I have read about the Obsidian news from fallout "fans" make my blood pressure spike.

I dont interact with gaming much here. This is mostly for news/politics. Which is good cause these people sound stupid as fuck and id definitely bully them abt it

Public figures (at both independent and more mainstream games journalists) that pitch it as a fix all for the industry piss me off the most. This shit is your job, please learn anything about how funding works within the industry you report on good lord…

True Indie games are nice But also: if some guy is successful, maybe he makes some millions, but he is the only one making money; most indie don't make any money, and when they do, it's less than minimum wage

Well of course

"Woke slop" = dog whistle for toxic bros whose only exposure to a real woman is the blow up kind you buy from skeevy stores in the dead of night with cash, while wearing a balaclava We know.

I believe the biggest factor that led to attitudes like this is the free to play model. A whole generation of gamers now have a sense of entitlement that they deserve top notch experiences with no investment from them up front. They scoff at the thought of devs making a living for their hard work.

Any dumb motherfucker who buys gta after the shit rockstar did and does isn’t worth listening to tbh

Probably sub 30 yo

I have yet to see someone express a similar take, thankfully

Holy shit is this really a thing??? I guess I'm lucky because I never see this type of shit. Everyone I see always shits on the companies for it and rightfully so.

I think it's that "Drawn Out" jerk.

Sounds like pure delusion and apathy torwards people loosing their livelyhoods.Neither of these teams currently have the capacity to produce anything that wont be infested with all the same problems as the last couple of games.

It is almost exclusively managements fault lol

That's exactly the guy I thought about. Complete divorce from reality, kill all youtubers