Totally agree with you but somehow i got arround this by use negative searchterms like "-youtube" "-video" and limiting the timeframe for newer topics. So or so, the newist info are community forums or discord servers. About the whole clickbait on google and youtube. they both go hand in hand, this "suggestions" wont go awy unless you stop interact with them. If i missclick on youtube i have to battle the algorithm by clicking "not interessted" for days until google stops trying to shovel this kind of content into my throat...

My favorite is the videos that are titled “HOW TO GET THE BEST LEGENDARIES FAST!!!” Then the content is basically 12 minutes of stretching out the statement “just play the game a lot.”

I wouldn't lump this in with the whole "enshitification" issue.

This is the end result of gamers not placing any value on the content they consume. People want free content, regardless of quality, over anything else.

So, as you would expect, what you are seeing is free content, regardless of quality, being created en masse.

Yes, crappy advice on websites like gamesvideodiablo.com are at the top of search results somehow. Luckily established sites like maxroll and icy-veins are out there. You still have to watch who submitted stuff. Feel sorry for anyone that has to wade through the gamesgamerhintsnews.com sites.

Feels like intermediate content is what’s missing. I find tons of “beginner” videos that aren’t useful to me, just explain the basic mechanics as anyone can plainly see them. A lot of these were made during the game preview and are highly ranked even though they are full of expired info.

And then there’s the extreme other end of people who use build names they assume you already know inside and out and are obsessing over spreadsheets and drop rates, making their life entirely about farming one particular unique - and they always play in a party as experienced as them on the absolute hardest endgame content and they hate everything Blizzard does.

Wish there were something in the middle. Like “how to lean in to a crit build” or “overview of popular Druid builds that are viable at level 70.”

You Won't Believe These Top 10 Reasons Why Diablo IV Content Consumers Perpetuate Clickbait, Especially Number 9

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I just kick all clickbaity channels off of my YouTube feed. If this ends up in YouTube not showing me any Diablo IV stuff on my feed, so be it.

Was trying to show a friend a video of what a particular game mod looks like the other day, and everything was videos of people going over painstaking details on how to tweak the mod etc etc with little to nothing on what the modded game actually fucking looks like.

I really miss the era when you could look up how to do something and get a very long but detailed (often with pictures) set of instructions. For example game walkthroughs. Now it's a bunch of videos with a bunch of "don't forget to like and subscribe" dipshits narrating the whole thing through.

The number of articles out about the latest and greatest game updates from a few hours ago which are rehashing patches released a week or more ago drive me nuts. How many times do I have to wade through multiple screens of preamble to find out that content is being recycled from week old news.

But yes, the ratio of low signal to high signal content is crazy in general. I get that people have to make a living and want to do it via communicating on YouTube/articles/... but I feel we've really lost access to high quality content. ChatGPT and other LLMs are going to make this wayyyyyyy worse.

Content recommendation algorithms push for length and frequency, which inevitably means meeting the quantity bar is more important than quality. Meanwhile we have really thought out high quality content buried in a mountain of clickbait and those creators both don't get as good monetization or exposure. It's a sad system :(. I want to see more ErrantSignal quality bar and less clickbait please.

Yes and no in sharing the rage. I can understand the how and why, but I also decide not to consume it for the most part. If I look for info, builds etc in games I always go to discord communities where I can get info bite-sized and written instead.

The videos themselves are so strange, why spend 15 minutes talking about something that could be written in 1-2 A4 pages. Builds in games especially are something that just is so much better written, rather than spoken.

Pretty sure the gaming community is where enshittification started. It’s an incredibly toxic community.

I’m liking that Icy-Veins website. I’m pretty sure they keep a close eye on some builds. I was following a build guide yesterday and it was tweaked differently today. So whatever is going on there it seems care is being taken. Also no horrible YouTube videos to deal with.

Gamergate

I'm tired of the " look at all this dps!" Then it is someone with max gear at lvl 99.

I once read a book called: The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

And it really echoes to me now just how many self appointed experts there are now.