It’s been my experience that dedicated places for fans of certain games or franchises to congregate always devolve into a never-ending cycle of “Everything is wrong and this game is terrible. I have 3000 hours in it.”.
No one hates a game like the most dedicated fans do. For instance, I put a significant amount of time into the Forza franchise over the years. The Forza community (both the subreddit and the official Forza forums) might be one of the worst I’ve ever experienced. No one is ever happy with or about anything.
Basically, if you really like something, avoid the fan communities at all costs. You’ll end up finding out about things that are supposedly “game ruining” that you never even knew or cared about and then you won’t be able to un-see it.
Glad he ignored the negativity and succeeded. Personally I don’t see the appeal of this type of game though. But, different strokes and all that.
I honestly couldn’t figure the game out…I’m glad people enjoy it, but I’m too smooth brained to have gotten anywhere
I have a poor sense of direction and just get lost a LOT.
If you get stuck or don’t know where to go next, you can ask the mayor. He will give you a hint for the next location.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s not to listen to jaded assholes online.
I get the feeling a lot of gamedev communities are full of people who haven’t built anything anyone wants to buy, and so get super bitter towards anyone wanting to try, or anyone who manages to make something that actually picks up steam and becomes successful.
They’re the sorts of people that will go “X Game is objectively bad!” and then shill their own game which is also bad.
The same happens in art and animation communities, where something will become popular and people will disguise their feeling of “Why can’t I get that?!” with “pfft, it’s objectively bad!”.
I get the feeling a lot of [reddit] gamedev communities are full of people who haven’t built anything
FTFY
statistically speaking not every game will be a commercial success.
Most Indie gamedev communities are super supportive of each other, or at least that’s been my experience from TIGSource to Itch.io days.
Speaking as someone who knows a little about game development from formal education in the matter
99% of people on the internet critizing game development have not the faintest idea what they are talking about.
A quick, translation guide (joke):
“I understand that might not be easy but” - would be super easy but there is a list of good reasons why we shouldn’t
“Seems like it would be easy too…” - its a pointlessly impossible endeavour to spend any time on this.
I am sure you are right, but r/gaming is a general gaming board. It’s not really focused on game creation/development.
Also with gamedev there is the additional “I have this great idea but I don’t know how to code” community too.
Some takeaways here:
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Don’t give up on yourself or your dreams.
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Keep a steady income going while you work on those things, because then your work can be your art for yourself instead of desperately trying to make something sellable before you run out of cash, and treating yourself to a latté feels like you just blew money on a steak dinner using funds that aren’t coming back. That stuff is scary.
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Game Dev / Gamer reddit has some gem, but on the whole it is full of very, very bitter people. They got that “everything you do is gonna suck and I’m totally saying this because I care” treatment, and they pass it right along. You’re better off finding /starting a local club.
- Of course, ignore #2 maybe if you’re one of those self-help book authors who is “so tired of their megacorporate 6-figure income after 10 years” and they have zero debt and saved most of that as a runway and can live on 45k a year. Sure, take the plunge and find your soul or whatever lol.
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@The_Picard_Maneuver You’ll never know where you’ll go with your passion project.
reddit specifically has also become a cesspool of hateful, miserable, morons.
And bots.
sometimes at the same time.
The internet really tends to be cruel. I used to open up about myself in some online spaces, but it only made me feel worse. Now I only talk about non personal stuff
I will listen and not judge, especially if you don’t have people in real life you can open up to.
This is such a weird collection of comments.
Except if you’re MAGA. Then I hope you do spiral to the point that you get locked up in the crazy house.
“Democrat voters are more empathetic” lmao
Braindead take.
The bar is on the floor if you earnestly want to make that comparison. I don’t see empathetic Republicans anywhere. The closest have been here on Lemmy and even then y’all are sussy.
my empathy doesn’t stretch to people who voted against my basic rights as a human
“If you don’t tolerate my intolerance then you’re intolerate too!” Amirite?
I guarantee you, every loser making one of those comments doesn’t do shit with their lives.
They can’t comprehend that in order to get better at things, you have to practice them.
Their lives consist of working, sleeping, and playing video games. It’s pathetic.
i was going to take this online negativity seriously, but i was recently reminded not to
Do not consider online judgements at all.
Do your thing. Pursue your passions. Do it.But my passion is clubbing baby seals…
Goddamn, that’s an ancient image. 😂
If that is what you love, please club as many seals as it makes you happy.
I’ve found online feedback useful. You just have to be careful about where you get it and take it with a grain of salt. A very large one.
If someone is being mean and negative it’s fine to ignore. If someone is giving constructive feedback that’s negative it’s more worthwhile
If someone gives you tips, advice, or constructive feedback: there’s a good chance they’re worth listening to.
Hostile, critical with no other feedback : almost certainly garbage.
The first comment in the image, to my mind, wasn’t actually bad. It didn’t tell them not to do something and it wasn’t critical. It just said they the category was very saturated and they should temper their expectations.
And, you’re also entirely correct that you should take even the feedback worth listening to with a grain of salt, or maybe a shaker. :) There’s a thousand and one ways to do anything, and it can be difficult to convey the difference between “this is how I would do it” and “this is how you should do it”.
(Doing software code reviews is a skill that can help teach the difference, and not everyone learns it)I’ve noticed a lot of people who give advice online can’t think for themselves and therefore cannot tolerate anyone doing anything differently from them.
Once I recognized that such an idiot exists and is prevalent on online forums, it became very easy to write them off whenever I see them.
The average internet user is about as smart as the average person these days. We need to dig in order to find intelligence; it’s not the norm.
I consider this a result from destabilization campaigns by evil global forces. They make everybody hate each other and spread negativity that snowballs into more negativity, until the point where we hate everything and become monsters ourselves.
Interesting theory, but I have a better one.
This is part of the concerted effort to make sure as many people do nothing with their lives as possible. There’s a culture of loserdom where people literally only play video games with their lives. Such a loser should never be taken seriously unless you want to end up like them.
Lol there’s nobody to blame folks. Most people are positive and productive with their lives, and some people arent.
I think a few of those people are on here now still moaning about the game being popular.
