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Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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Answering GDC's 2023 survey, 78% of respondents said they considered the harassment and toxicity developers receive from the public to be a serious issue. A simple sentiment is often the most effective, and the title of Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah's latest video cuts right to the heart of it: "Your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty."

You don't have to like a game, and you don't have stay quiet if you have complaints, says Darrah. You're entitled to be angry, and you're entitled to express that anger. "If you are mad at that Ubisoft game, be mad at Ubisoft," he says. "Express your anger to Ubisoft or the studio that made the game. But you cross a line when you start being cruel about it." (Thanks, PC Gamer and GamesRadar)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think they make a valid point that there's a difference between critique and criticism.

$70 is a lot to spend on a game for most people, so people want to feel they got their money's worth, but you have to admit that the internet does have a bad habit of turning everything into hyperbole.

Still, a company with a multiple million dollar budget should be able to produce something truly amazing, especially when there's indie devs and publishers that make truly memorable gems for what's a comparatively shoestring budget.

If the big companies want to have more critiques and less criticism, perhaps they should start listening to players instead of producers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People could avoid paying $70 for bad games by not preordering. Like seriously, it takes maybe two hours after release for the criticism to start pouring in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

With physical copies of games essentially being non-existent, there is absolutely no point in pre-ordering a game. Hold on to your money, and wait for reviews.