apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy, personally.
I don’t love how this is phrased, but it’s not wrong.
The harsh reality of creative industries is that people are gonna be uninformed, dickish smartasses on social media (and… you know, traditional media, too), but they don’t owe the creators anything, so if they don’t like a thing they don’t need to be right about why they like it.
But hey, I also don’t resent any creator for venting reasonably on social media about this stuff every now and then. I think it’s a dumb, potentially career-ending thing to do, but I get it.
I don’t see why we should accept a long winded excuse for failing to stick the landing.
Olympians know when they fucked up an attempt, and move on. What’s stopping these whinging game studios and developers?
No one owes them money. Their game doesn’t deserve to be profitable. They were attempting to make a good, profitable game. Failed, and now want everyone to pat them on the back and give them a gold medal anyway because they tried soooo hard!
It’s the entitlement that gets me, as if they deserve pity or artificial success just because