I dunno if I can agree the forums have become more toxic, I don't recall being told in the past years to go commit suicide, that my tastes in games are shitty and make me an inferior human being and I'm not wanted on the escapist so should just leave, etc....
Yet I was told all that in my first few years. Now the trend is to be sly and snarky with your attacks.
I admit I hate that, I much prefer someone call me a wanker to my face rather then dance around and imply it.
But just goes to show the forums have always been about the same, toxicity wise, just the methods have changed.
I will agree that there are a lot more hot button topics then there used to be though, which is what really poisons the well. When I first signed up the escapist was a more carefree and apolitical place. Now? Oh boy..
People say its GG but nah, it was already happening way before.
Makes me miss the old days when all the hostility was about march madness and how people twisted themselves into knots over "unworthy" devs or publishes possibly winning the MM.
Treeinthewoods said:
The responses in the thread here are literally all about how it's going to be crappy. "Quality over quantity, blah blah blah, I am such a hipster." .
Eh..I don't agree with this, wtf should we go crazy over every bit of pre release PR? And furthermore this isn't even part of some new wave of negativism that has come across the escapist... The escapist was ALWAYS a place to discuss games openly, both good and bad. It's part of why I liked this place and I've been making bitchy posts about upcoming games for as long as I've been a member and never felt out of place so yeah.. This really isn't something you can say the escapist has become more toxic in, if anything this is something that's been stable throughout my years here.
And honestly I'd rather we have a bit of cynism here and don't go crazy over every piece of PR fed to us and am disappointed you think I should be jumping up in glee on finding out that fallout 4 has a bigger script, as if that alone will make the game super awesome when I know for a fact once I'm playing I won't give a toss how big the script is if I find the quality to be lacking and I don't think you would either.