Gaming

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

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!".

reddit specifically has also become a cesspool of hateful, miserable, morons.

Some takeaways here:

1. Don't give up on yourself or your dreams.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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 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.

This is called survivorship bias

Shitting on hard work and effort of indie devs and then wondering why the gaming ladscape is filled with souless corporate slop.

Do not consider online judgements at all.
Do your thing. Pursue your passions. Do it.

This is such a weird collection of comments.

I think a few of those people are on here now still moaning about the game being popular.