Are people now turning on Toxic gamers?

 

Hello, everybody!  Quick blog. And a huge hug to all the sobering gamers<333 I wasn't expecting to be writing this today, but I happened across a negative video this morning, and like a fish on bait material I just got dragged into the drama again. Sorry. I should be focusing on my own work, but I want to talk about this because I am so glad more and more people are beginning to notice the toxic demand in the gaming community.

That, if you just so happen to be reasonable......and rational.....you could potential offend people now that just want to disagree and be mad and look at the glass half empty. 

Like, the biggest argument toxic people make to hide their negativity and harsh criticism is that "if you like something, understand others might not." Like this is a very calm way to phrase, "if you like something, thats great. But we're going to trash talk as much as we can regardless of sales, fans, and positive reception. 

Which brings me to my first point that I mentioned in a comment somewhere, that in cases like Bethesda, where they actually released a very neutral game like Starfield that WASN'T GREAT, and it WASN'T BAD, it was just okay in the middle for being a space game, people have since just dragggggged this game along with Bethesda with so much hate. And I am way over it by now because I have resolved at the end of last year that I and no one else can reason with someone that just goes online to say this x game is trash. You can't. You just can't reason. You can't use logic. You can't convince common sense. If you are not also raging, being negative, using trash talk and slurs, then your opinion honestly won't matter to toxic people. And, I learned that the best thing you or anybody can do to fight toxic people.....is by not addressing them in the first place and being sucessful by doing the opposite of what they want. If toxic people want to say Starfield, for example, is a bad game and get millions of drama clickbait, let them, you go on livestreaming Starfield and showcasing your playthroughs and different mods you are playing with. Don't stop on behalf of negative people. The worst thing we have done is GIVE time to toxic youtube rant videos and nitpick critics. This, I believe now above all else, is the worse thing anyone can do...respond to criticism. 

As an indie dev, if I could learn one thing from the Steam replys that Bethesda made on Starfield, it would be....to not reply at all. Because once you reply to a complainer...a nitpicker....you will provide them with more fuel to fire on their drama in tomorrow's video "BETHESDA this and bethesda that!" and so forth.

So, take note, Indie Devs that are preparing their own hard-worked games to the public, do not cater to negative reviews. Just don't because Bethesda is a great example in today's media that toxic negative ranters will make a living off of bad publicity.

Some people ask me here, "Do you get paid for defending a corporation?" 

In which, I can also ask "Do you get paid in defrauding a corporation?"

Public reception works both ways. Do I get paid for saying I had fun in a game? No, unless I'm actually doing a sponered video or making youtube bucks.

Do people get paid for bad mouthing Bethesda, Todd, and using slurs to any fan of their games? Yes. It's already a business model on youtube bucks to create drama. Just look at Act Man and Asmongold, two Youtubers that trash talk many games they dont play, get millions of brainless views to agree, then profit off of followers, subs, and youtube bucks.

It's such a good business model, that now we even have smaller youtubers doing the same thing by being a "news" content vlogger making smaller 1k-40k videos about "look at how this is bad" and "look at what they did!" 

Add up all the small youtubers, and you get your weekly never ending dose of drama alerts on your feed about why games suck and nothing is good and, like politics, only being spoon-told extreme views in the algorithm by more what IS good and more what is bad according to your favorite youtuber. Just think about how that affects more people daily than just a 1 million clickbait fad.

You know, I thought it was just me that noticed that there were people that were actually just making content just to rant. I found a video a year ago or so when someone was trash talking Bethesda on a skyrim-related topic, in which case I commented to correct their concerns (which was most of his video talking points) because I already had some insight.

...The next day, my comments were deleted. The guy continued as if nothing happened. Like I just disturbed his whole video model process and I was not an average viewer getting fished in to comment my normal frustration. So believe me when I tell you there ARE people deliberately making drama content as their base for growth and income, even if their content can be easily debunked.

Which is why I've said before that it's NEVER a good thing when your entire content channel, or public profiles from what people know you as, are filled with just negativity. It's not good. Because while you will allow people to "softly" vent their frustrations, you will also not become a content creator that will provide a healing process, just more ranting and complaining and before long your average fan will be a cynic and a grinch the more you talk about bad concerns without addressing positives in what you critique. Some youtubers are able to hide their negative bias through higher production edits, lighting, composure, all the things that mask a convincing narrator yet, their video history and per-notions give away their bias that when a new topic is out, they always begin with some sort of "well guys....let's see what this is about now."

Which is EXACTLY what I pointed to in my Cyberpunk blog that because people have presumptions going into a game, they mentally create their own reception of it being good or bad based on what they were told. No wonder people begin complaining about their experience when they're barely going through the first 20 hours of an open world, or starting tutorial, etc. Sometimes people enter a game starting with the wrong mindsets, like rather than enjoying what you bought, you just b-line to finish the story, see all you can do, just to say you did 100 hours and had 0 fun. Well, no duh, if by playing a 100 hours was spent in just trying to convince yourself that you were playing a bad game from the start or wasted through working on missions. Like, as a gamer, how horrifying is it to just spend 2 hours doing a main story? That's when gaming doesn't become fun, that's when it becomes a chore, because someone is trying to b-line the main story that would otherwise be there if you had just played the game normally. Like, the same as trying to be a game reviewer by finishing a game as fast as you could and missing the basics of why you're playing in the first place, to immerse yourself by getting lost. Not to mention, just fast traveling everywhere and then complaining that you found your experience "boring."

All this to remind people that it's okay to not like a game that you didn't enjoy. That's natural. But, what isn't okay is to go online to vent your frustration, nitpicks, and even bad mouth studios and any one else that actually enjoys the game. For example, I talked before that I never liked Final Fantasy, and to me, Final Fantasy is a horrible franchise. That's my opinion. I don't go online making content to hate on Final Fantasy players, the game devs, or even the company. Yet, that's exactly what people do to Bethesda and any game they didn't personally like from them.

It's very concerning how this is a real thing that people just make fake drama content, blow things up out of proportions, and then fish in all the bystanders that soon enough people begin really making theories around their own anger. Just look at how many people believed Bethesda used "AI" to reply to steam reviews. You say a lie once, and it follows and expands on the internet that you can make an entire negative video in January, and by March people are still seeing it and expanding further on the negative points. Now, that is some real social psychology at play when you can convince a total stranger to come into your video and just follow blindly onto hate.

There's a reason why people call those that make drama following the "bandwagon" because drama lives on mob mentality. 

Just like my other blog, the gaming internet can say "this game is the best ever" and people will just believe it as much as when people say "this game is the worst ever."

 

Lastly, I'm glad I went through the skyrim drama a few weeks ago. It has really helped me mature onto this year. But, boy, are there still people making videos bad mouthing the skyrim update even though its already January. How relevant are people going to keep saying "the update broke my game" wah wah wah. Like, no. It's been a month now. Stop complaining. This ain't the first ever update and you all know it. There have been updates before December, so all you should know better how to back up your files if you're going to mod skyrim in the first place. NO EXCUSE. Also, people are still complaining about the new paid mods, and I'm wayyyyy over explaining that 1. paid mods are optional 2. they help support actual modders 3. bethesda owns skyrim. not the modders, they deserve a cut from sales. 4. just because someone makes free content doesn't mean their not allowed to earn some income you bunch of spoiled babies. Yes! Spoiled, that's what you call someone that becomes ungrateful with free gifts. Whatever you call a "passion hobby" does not excuse the reality that some people need support to keep going. We're not all blessed with a 9-5 job to keep our "passion hobbies" afloat. The internet is one big paradox of people receiving free content not knowing whom is paying the bills. Like, not everything uploaded to the internet is a "labor of love," some are also labors of commission, or if you just want to be real, most uploads are slave-level exploitation by the way many in a community freely labor to upload content without knowing. ANYWAYS, this is going off topic and more into a "how does community society work."

All of this simple common sense that people just don't want to give light to because everyone just wants to listen to rants and youtuber nitpickers make a video squatting under Starfield npcs and saying "wow look at how ugly the bottom of an npc is. thanks bugthesda."

 

P.s. no I am not a Bethesda employee. I am just an indie game dev that won't cater to toxic gamers (you can check out my past work on modding, see my 3d models, or the game projects I am currently building).

So, Starfield is a prime example of proof that there are people that just flock to hate on whatever bethesda releases now. Yet modders enjoy bethesda games, thats why they mod them and play bethesda games. 

People that download mods are normally the general public that has a bigger toxic community of fake fans that will ONLY play bethesda games if they play with their jiggle mods. 

So, I can't wait for people to hate on Es6 after release. I will be playing it because I want to. I will not become like others and say Morrowind was the last good game, or Oblivion was the last, or Skyrim. Shut up. We all play Elder Scrolls, that's why we're here. 

I have learned after talking to a lot of Morrowind fans, that leaving negative reviews is NOT helping anyone at all. People are delusional to think if we like something, we have to complain to "fix" it. Far from reality. When we complain we just show that we cant respect what a dev wants. We want Morrowind 2 or Skyrim 2. And even then, we complain that the original is bad because it does not have this x feature that we want in the game. Even notorious Elder Scroll critics like Zhakron have said themselves that they nitpick and complain against Bethesda solely because they want Bethesda to make a game according to what they want to see in it. Which totally undermines what Bethesda wants to make. So, no wonder many get hot-headed when Oblivion does things differently than Morrowind and so forth.

Imagine if Fromsoft listened to negative reviews and installed an easy mode or etc. Our negativity and nitpicks only hurt our favorite games. Morrowind fans been hating Oblivion, Skyrim, etc, but they'll never get another Morrowind. Games don't cater to you, they move on according to what the devs want. We have to respect the games and devs instead. It's time to get off our high horse and either work on our own games or shut up, because all this nonrecognition for other people's work to make a video game and the toxic complaints are maidenless behavior.