Gaming

It's been my experience that dedicated places for fans of certain games or franchises to congregate always devolve into a never-ending cycle of "Everything is wrong and this game is terrible. I have 3000 hours in it.".

No one hates a game like the most dedicated fans do. For instance, I put a significant amount of time into the Forza franchise over the years. The Forza community (both the subreddit and the official Forza forums) might be one of the worst I've ever experienced. No one is ever happy with or about anything.

Basically, if you really like something, avoid the fan communities at all costs. You'll end up finding out about things that are supposedly "game ruining" that you never even knew or cared about and then you won't be able to un-see it.

Glad he ignored the negativity and succeeded. Personally I don't see the appeal of this type of game though. But, different strokes and all that.

I honestly couldn't figure the game out....I'm glad people enjoy it, but I'm too smooth brained to have gotten anywhere

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s not to listen to jaded assholes online.

I get the feeling a lot of gamedev communities are full of people who haven't built anything anyone wants to buy, and so get super bitter towards anyone wanting to try, or anyone who manages to make something that actually picks up steam and becomes successful.

They're the sorts of people that will go "X Game is objectively bad!" and then shill their own game which is also bad.

The same happens in art and animation communities, where something will become popular and people will disguise their feeling of "Why can't I get that?!" with "pfft, it's objectively bad!".

This is called survivorship bias

I guarantee you, every loser making one of those comments doesn't do shit with their lives.

They can't comprehend that in order to get better at things, you have to practice them.

Their lives consist of working, sleeping, and playing video games. It's pathetic.

The internet really tends to be cruel. I used to open up about myself in some online spaces, but it only made me feel worse. Now I only talk about non personal stuff

reddit specifically has also become a cesspool of hateful, miserable, morons.

Some takeaways here:

1. Don't give up on yourself or your dreams.

2. Keep a steady income going while you work on those things, because then your work can be your art for yourself instead of desperately trying to make something sellable before you run out of cash, and treating yourself to a latté feels like you just blew money on a steak dinner using funds that aren't coming back. That stuff is scary.

3. Game Dev / Gamer reddit has some gem, but on the whole it is full of very, very bitter people. They got that "everything you do is gonna suck and I'm totally saying this because I care" treatment, and they pass it right along. You're better off finding /starting a local club.

• Of course, ignore #2 maybe if you're one of those self-help book authors who is "so tired of their megacorporate 6-figure income after 10 years" and they have zero debt and saved most of that as a runway and can live on 45k a year. Sure, take the plunge and find your soul or whatever lol.

Shitting on hard work and effort of indie devs and then wondering why the gaming ladscape is filled with souless corporate slop.

Do not consider online judgements at all.
Do your thing. Pursue your passions. Do it.

With 20/20 hindsight it was obviously a good idea.

But at the time of making the decision, it was an unbelievably risky plan and the odds were stacked against it. As a matter of fact, for every successful 2D platformer made with care and love that gets released and becomes successful, there are dozens that fail miserably and that you will never hear of.

Yes, believing in yourself and taking risks makes success possible, but remember that it does not guarantee it.

Huh, it's not like Reddit to be pointlessly hateful 😌

This is exactly how Eric Barone felt, despite knowing in his heart that he had made something special to him. This is how he thought Stardew Valley would he received. The general gaming community are such cunts.

Speaking of negativity, how the hell do people deal with the way reddit looks now? Everytime I see it this way I am shocked.

Avatars, ads, wasted space, weird conversation drop downs..... yuck.

I think a few of those people are on here now still moaning about the game being popular.

This is the plot of Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne.

As someone who quit his job to create a video game this makes me feel good.

I will probably fail, but that's a future feeling.

this would be on r/agedlikemilk

I remember the first comment I got on online was "you suck". But it was soon drowned by encouragement words and constructive feedback.

About Hollow Knight, by the time this got posted on reddit, the game was already funded through kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11662585/hollow-knight

What this image does not show is the amount of support this post received, more than 20k upvotes and plenty of endearing messages on reddit only.

u/YoDudeguy Nov 20 '15
Damn, that looks amazing! Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Will buy.

u/Eliza_Douchecanoe Nov 20 '15
I like the dark feel of it, but with light-hearted game play and sound effects. Good shit.

If I sort by votes, I had to scroll a bit to get to that 756 votes message.

It is important to filter and properly process the messages you receive. There are some mean and unnecessary messages on that image (and on the reddit thread), but they do not show the full picture and at that time could easily be ignored.