Re: IGD: PARENTS VS. STEAM.
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:37 am
Obviously post 2010, everything was fine until then...
Here's my perspective on how things happened:
CoD wasn't the first game to attract kids for obvious reasons, but it's community has one of the most prevalent of them, it ruined it as kids ran rampant through the games and did obnoxious things, ruining the experience for others and they stopped playing. It is accepted that consoles are a source for family gaming and kids are more frequent on them (Due to how these are cheaper then most PCs, with little experience needed to use them).
Fast forward a bit, and Minecraft came out, kids obviously turned this into the next big thing and automatically tempted their friends to buy it and so on and so forth. This didn't happen overnight, and the game gradually grew itself. The community quickly deteriorated after children joined in.
This isn't the sole blame, Mojang outsourcing Curse for mod, wiki and forum hosting didn't help anyone, and CoD was already deteriorating (Or even deteriorated) from the inception of Black Ops and Modern Warfare.
It certainly would make sense that kids are the most vocal of the community, and generally what's left after it deteriorated, thus subject to more criticism and judgment then other parts.
Very sleepy, I woke up at 1:00 PM yesterday, so expect some grammar errors there.
Here's my perspective on how things happened:
CoD wasn't the first game to attract kids for obvious reasons, but it's community has one of the most prevalent of them, it ruined it as kids ran rampant through the games and did obnoxious things, ruining the experience for others and they stopped playing. It is accepted that consoles are a source for family gaming and kids are more frequent on them (Due to how these are cheaper then most PCs, with little experience needed to use them).
Fast forward a bit, and Minecraft came out, kids obviously turned this into the next big thing and automatically tempted their friends to buy it and so on and so forth. This didn't happen overnight, and the game gradually grew itself. The community quickly deteriorated after children joined in.
This isn't the sole blame, Mojang outsourcing Curse for mod, wiki and forum hosting didn't help anyone, and CoD was already deteriorating (Or even deteriorated) from the inception of Black Ops and Modern Warfare.
It certainly would make sense that kids are the most vocal of the community, and generally what's left after it deteriorated, thus subject to more criticism and judgment then other parts.
Very sleepy, I woke up at 1:00 PM yesterday, so expect some grammar errors there.