I have seen this progress so much over the last decade in Steam discussion forums for so many games. Most comments have devolved into whining entitled p.o.s. negativity. What people didn’t get from an update, or what isn’t fixed. They don’t care about what IS there, or what it took to get there. One thing is bad or missing so they’ll gladly comment the entire thing is shit. Just insane. Short, rude tone, sometimes evil remarks from the armchair jackass who thinks they know better about game development, and displays how if their partner had 1 flaw, they’d throw them in a dumpster.

Especially when you see recent stats like 20% of all European developers laid off in the last year. The corporate side of the industry is bad enough that it’s amazing we get good games eith good artistic ideas in them at all. So many goodnideas that make games good are passion from developers, not the corporate side of it. Not the project managers. Not the idiotic st9ck watchers. No it’s the developers and artists and writers and actors doing the grunt work for a job with too much crunch that would gladly dump them 5 minutes post-release. The last thing they need is nitpicking every tiny fucking little flaw to shreds for games which are often very enjoyable and well done for their prices.

The CEO making shitty decisions doesn’t read the comments, but I guarantee you the passionate developer who put their life and art into it might see some of them.

But this isn’t just gaming. Society is chock full of entitled whining little dirt bags. This is why my circle of friends and family is very small, and focused on quality. I can walk down the street and it don’t take long before I see or hear something that I can associate with blatant hatefulness.

So many people don’t know what “being content” means, nor “constructive criticism,” nor sympathy, empathy, or compassion.

It is amazing what choices we have today for gaming. Value it and enjoy while you can.