i actually find pride, when i hear this in an arguement, about how i shouldnt be triggered about video games, and how i just shouldnt care overall about it.
truth is, and i’m sure many of you out there will relate, i love video games, and i love overwatch (or atleast what it could be), and i’m passionate about video games, i get hyped, and i get upset, just like someone passionate about soccer would be if his fav team got screwed over.
and i’m sure the devs care relate as well, seeing jeff’s letter to the everquest devs, he was passionate about it, and it made him grew toxic just like the deletebrig movement, and both i can get behind of and respect.
video games and overwatch to me are important, and seeing their primary target shift into the poeple who don’t care hurts, yet i understand that the game needs money, and our pockets arent deep enough to sustain overwatch’s devlopmnt.
so at the end of day, when u hear someone getting upset about moira and brigitte, mercy’s state or just mystery death match, before you call him a crybaby and tell him to get a life… well there is actually nothing at the end of this sentence, you dont know what it felt to link the fire, and you’ll never understand why people want a half life 3 so much, so i dont expect you to understand my feeling about overwatch when you would delete the game at the first sign of change of the game that you cant get behind.
I feel the same way about the game but feel terrible movements like delete Brig only serve to kill the one game that I more or less enjoy. But again, it IS just a game and speeding up its death has already taken everyone 3 years. So I guess at this point that is longer than I could have ever expected and everything else is the cherry.
tbh, to me deletebrig was just an outcry of the poeple who love this game, saying this is not ok and if the devs were honest they wouldn’t let this happen in the first place.
Son, you’ve got a way to fall,
theyll tell you where to go,
but they wont know.
This is what playing Competitive feels like lol.
I’ve put a lot of time into this game, and at this point in my life i dont like when it feels wasted. I feel embarrassed that i get angry at this game the way i do sometimes.
no it was an outcry of haters who couldnt stand having their heroes countered for once in their life, we all knew brig was OP on release, but some of us decided to suggest ideas inestead of whining
Saying this is not fine and suggesting changes is ok, saying delete means you should be ignored
you sure did suggst changes just like everyone on the movement, but at somepoint screaming for the devs to actually do something was the last resort as the game was awful and they didnt seem to care.
call it hate, call it whatever you want, they cared about the game, more then someone who says just learn to counter and dissmisses the problems of the game
By all means, be upset. You absolutely have that right. Everyone gets upset about things in the game. It can be frustrating, you can think a mechanic is unfair, that’s fine. It means you’re passionate.
But my issue is how I see people using that passion. More often than not people are destructive instead of productive. You can be annoyed about how say, brig is balanced. But people need to learn to temper that anger and channel it into productive ways that don’t involve us hurling insults. Brig isn’t going to break into your home and whip shot you across the room.
People tend to overreact, and create unproductive comments in the game and on the forums (not everyone, but enough for us to be discussing it). As they say, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
fact is, when the game was legit awful to play, and the devs and the rest of the community just keep telling you that your feedback doesnt matter, that you just suck and should delete the game, u kinda grow into a toxic hate ball, not that it’s in your nature, but when you lose the love you have over something it turns into anger and hate (Tobirama Senju) then the only thing left for you is to scream your guts off until u cant deal with it anymore and stop playing ow/ the devs actully finnaly do something to fix it
Actually, you catch more flies with vinegar than honey.
I’d argue the same is true with video games generally.
Yes, you’ll have exceptions when the individual actually cares about what the users in question think but, I suspect that the majority of the time that’s note the case.
I’ve played game after game where people complain nicely about something and nothing happens. Once it escalates to people not being nice you get action.
Back in late 2017 you had tens of thousands of posts about balance changes of various levels of constructiveness. Posts like the one below got response where as the constructive stuff didn’t really.
I’m sure you know that saying isn’t literally about how to catch flies. And luckily people, unlike flies, have emotions.
If you give criticism laced with malice, expect people to get defensive and not want to listen to you. You can give criticism without being rude, and to be honest I doubt that people being mean is what actually got changes made.
I’m sorry I just don’t believe that being rude to people is an appropriate way to bring about change. It just makes us look like children.
People not wanting to listen to you only matters if that’s a change of state.
Compare how the sound team, maps team, and the current workshop team deal with feedback vs the balance lead and overall team lead.
The former group actually listen (that doesn’t mean they always do what one wants) and as a result it’d be stupid to annoy them.
The balance lead and overall team lead on the other hand don’t listen to the average person and as a result, annoying them is more effective.
You’ve got lots of people like the balance lead and overall team lead in the games industry.
Look at how the paid mods went on Skyrim.
Many people felt that it was a bad idea and you had no initial reaction. People then escalated and grew very hostile after a few days of hostility, you had the head of Valve attempt to cool things down and when people were still hostile the next day paid mods were pulled.
Needless to say, after the outrage died down they put the paid mods back in.
The outrage had the power the people’s opinions didn’t matter.
still video games
and thank you for considering cod a nesport, most people think it’s just a camping 13yo game, there is alot more depth and strat into it