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What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by nilo@reddthat.com to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Title is tongue in cheek, of course—they probably are gamers. I get that making a game is complex and full of trade-offs, and you can’t please everyone. Still, there are certain design decisions that just feel like they weren’t made by people who play games regularly.

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Toby Fox was forced to add trophies to the PlayStation release of undertale and deltarune, and made them oppressively annoying in protest, so I feel like there are exceptions to this