The audience is pretty understanding of the gap between what big experienced teams vs.

Nobody expects an indie action RPG to have the production values of God of War. Nobody expects any other developer to match Rockstar's ambition and scope in open world games. Yet it's OK for him to do so as a veteran journalist being paid to represent the biggest gaming news outlet. If a literal high-school student had wrote an essay where the only things they cited were some mischaracterised tweets, 'generalised anger,' and Youtube rage channels, then they'd have been given a big-fat failing grade. He wants to hold developers to 'higher standards' - to declare that people should hold them to those standards as well - whilst simultaneously doing games journalism work that lowers standards for the field. When you refer to a small indie developer talking about not being able to meet impossible standards in one sentence, and then relate that to Rockstar putting out an overpriced basic port in the other sentence, you're creating a correlation between the two even if you believe that you're not.įrankly the thing that's not been said as much is the hypocrisy. Now that other people are, rightly, saying that invoking this anger at other developers is weaponizing things against them, he's calling it out as 'gross,' as if he has no idea of what the internet and the discourse is like. Earlier in the thread he says that the original tweets were an 'inflection point' to talk about those other frustrations basically saying that, it doesn't matter what the actual context is for those tweets, the simple fact that gamers are angry (when are they ever not angry?) means that one can read considerably more into what was said than was actually there.

I think that Destin wants the conversation to be about 'Microtransactions and broken releases,' when in reality the entire thing has simply been about the fact that not every game can achieve '95+ on Metacritic' levels of quality.

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