What part of our gaming culture you will never understand or hate?

For me, I will never understand how people would dare call you "entitled" for criticizing a game. Yes, as paying customers we ARE entitled to the quality of games we purchase. People should worry less about hurting major corporations' feelings when you criticize their games, they're making money off of you.

What about you?

I will never understand PS4 owners and their enjoyment out of movie-games.

Tech plebs and fanboys.

Ill never understand cows. Especially based on how they acted last gen, I see it hasn't changed this gen either..

Why gaming culture sometimes treat gaming as a religion instead of a hobby.

I don't understand how gaming became a sport. I just never will and I will never understand why people are so obsessed with MOBAs.

I don't understand the people that want to see one of the console makers leave the industry. Competition is good for the consumer. The competition between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo pushes them to work hard to keep improving their products and keeps them from taking advantage of gamers.

I also don't understand when people say that they get free games from Playstation Plus. You pay money to subscribe to a service and then as soon as you stop giving them money, you can't play the games anymore, so those are not free games, they are game rentals. It's the equivalent of saying that you get free movies from Netflix, but nobody ever says that because it is not true, so I don't understand why people say that about Playstation Plus.

Why Pokemon and Digimon etc. are popular at all.

For me it's definitely fanboys personifying large corporations like Microsoft & Sony like real people, and judging their actions as if the companies have some sort of personality or individual agenda. In truth, these companies are owned and controlled by masses of shareholders who may give so little **** about gaming next to how much money they can make.

I find e-sports really cringe-worthy. I get some people make really good $$$ out of it, and good for them. I guess I'm just one of those people stuck in their old bubble. I don't think I'll ever "get it".

@storm_of_swords: With the PS Plus thing its like taxes, its not free you just pay into the system to give you the illusion of "free."

I dont understand why people are obsessed with console/game sales. who the **** cares?

Cosplay

I mean kudos who enjoy doing it and having fun. But I've seen people who would go into extremes doing it.

I'll never understand why most gamers are generally terrible people.

I don't understand why so many people feel the need to be obnoxious fanboys and argue about how someone else's system sucks compared to theirs. It makes a lot of the gaming community look like middle schoolers. As an adult I get pretty tired of it. (Actually the only reason I'm in System Wars in the first place is because this topic came up in the highlighted topics on the main page :P ).

I prefer talking about video games I like, instead of putting down systems as a whole. Comments like "LOL Xflop" and "Nintendo is for kiddies" don't contribute anything of substance. I'm above that, and so are a lot of gamers. :P

I don't understand how gamers have let mictotransactions and season passes become the norm.

@Kenny789: I never refer to it as a sport, but it can be a competitive outlet. Especially in fighting games. Its comparable to chess. Making the right reads and out smarting your opponent, seeing who has the best reactions, etc. In the grand scheme of things it a pointless, but isn't everything?

Hate

• Hipsters who bash games w/o even playing or renting them, do us a favor and shut up, no I don't want to see your so called opinion cause you don't have one since YOU NEVER PLAYED THE GAME
• Bashing yearly releases, people need to realize those games were in development for a good 2 years if not more. I'd rather have yearly releases than a release every 5-10 years cause we all know how that ends (DNF anyone?)
• e-sports, seriously as much as I love gaming I'd never want to sit on my ass all day and be a try hard at a hobby, although streaming is actually something I enjoy cause it's just someone streaming while they play
• Entitled brats wanting everything handed to them, sorry but this is a business and developers want to make money, yes there's a line that they shouldn't cross but so far they really haven't went overboard with it.
• Obsession over PC gaming, Steam, X1, Sony and Nintendo. By that I'm talking about fanboys, seriously I'm a GAMER, I love to play games and it annoys the shit out of me when I see, say example a game on X1 that I really wanna play, so you know what I own every console during a gen cause I love to have options. It annoys me how people can just stick with one system and pretend it's the "end all be all".
• Gaming journalism, there is soooooo much fubar on this one from click bait sites like GS, Kotaku and entitled whiny youtube personas like Angry Carrot Top I mean Angry Joe.
• Gamers somehow thinking 8 and 7 scores are bad....
• User review scores, which is full of blatant trolling scores from angry adults who have a temper of a 13 year old girl to devs praising their own game...why is this even a option on sites?

/end rant

I dont understand why some gamers feel entitled so much. Why does someone owe you something? Make a game, show me game, sell me game, i might buy game, thank you come again.

people who act like companies trying to make money is a dispicable thing but then cry when they go out of business

Gaymers and SJW gamers.

Indie games, I honestly don't know how people enjoy those... Also ^

Calling anyone who wants something even slightly different from video-game stories an "SJW".

Grown ass adults being corporate slaves.

Any other thing I can chalk up to "If it makes you happy, good for you", but if cheer leading for these corporations and acting like they are your messiah is what makes you happy, you need help.

Don't understand new youtube generation of gamers. They whine about everything and don't play games.

I don't understand this, can you elaborate on what SJW is, and why they're bad?

The best thing about indie games, is also the worst thing about it. Anyone can make an Indie game, but there are so few that are good-excellent. I can recommend a few that are about great stories, gameplay or even atmosphere if you like.

Definitely agree with you, especially on that. It could be worse, the children who never played anything but one type of game like Minecraft.

Fanboys.

Celebrating exclusives. Good for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, bad for gamers.

@ultimateimp: SJW's destroy pop culture by trying to censor everything while trying to please everyone which is impossible. Video games are an art, you're free to express it how you want.

PC elitists always shi**ing on consoles for being so weak and also not being able to comprehend why millions of people still prefer to play on consoles over PC.

Also, Nintendo fanboys who can never admit when Nintendo makes stupid business decisions.

I don't understand fanboys and watching other people play games on (e.g.) YouTube

@ultimateimp: Sure, please recommend some good indie games! But I must explain what SJW is. A you may know already it stands for Social Justice Warrior - a bunch of morons who have accomplied nothing significant in life and now takes every opportunity to make up for this, usually critique issues they know nothing about and recommend solutions which they don't actually truly believe in themselves. Theres a high correlation between SJWs, Feminism, Activism, Socialists, etc etc Basically all the useless people in society...PETA is a perfect example. How SJWs affect us gamers? Well remember Mass Effect 2? Miranda was pretty hot right? Well because of their useless input instead of hot female characters we get manly women characters like Ashley, Cassandra etc and you get unnecessary gay romance scenes which make no sense whatsoever. Developers need to learn SJWs are nothing more than idiots and should do whatever the hell they want in the artistic department, CDProjektRED is a perfect example.

The part where games get serious.

people believing the score instead of reading the actual review and weighing the pros and cons of said game...

I think my thoughts have been encapsulated here fairly closely.

@remiks00:

This. I'm not even referring to this forum, they are all over the place online as if everywhere is system wars.

Paying $15 a month to play a specific game

What's not to "get"? People who love playing games wants to compete in said games and earn money. If you loved playing something, and were extremely skilled in it and could earn money by competing and having fun, you wouldn't want to? That's harder to "get", in my opinion.

Honestly I can't stand gaming culture as a whole.

There's a ridiculous sense of entitlement where people think developers should bend at every whim.

People take these corporate battles disturbingly seriously.

Gamers get pissed off when a game they're hyping gets a not so high score despite not having played it. The next day they parade around and say they don't let reviews sway them.

Gamers don't understand the fundamentals of criticism.

Gamers have lofty, unwarranted expectations, yet ironically enough, gamers have some downright shitty taste and standards.

Gamers are quick to hurl insults at one another over petty disagreements.

This culture is trash.

@BassMan: Agreed, well said.

I really don't understand that either. You pay $65 for a game, its a broken mess, and people call you "entitled" when you complain about it?

Gamer's are the only consumer that seemingly don't have the right to get what they pay for. If you ordered a steak at a restaurant and they served you bologna, would you be called "entitled" for complaining? No.

Whiney complaining self entitled crowd that think profits a dirty word until their favorite gaming company goes belly up.

Amongst many other things. :P

Fanboyism!!!

The growing negativity among gamers.... look at any thread, even the good intention threads, and the first response is always a snarky, negative comment.

Console fanboys are pretty annoying.

This and how people constantly let themselves get screwed over by publishers with all the DLC/Season Pass/Microtransaction bullshit.

You know if you guys stopped supporting it, all these stupid practices would stop.

I hate how there's shit bait posts, and I hate how lostrib keeps posting that bait meme every time he sees shit bait posts.

I hate how you all have fake standards and silly quality filters.

I hate how I chose my username to be bobrossperm because i'm past my Bob Ross loving phase for now.

I hate how there's multiple so called 'pro gameplay' posters and each of them have completely opposing oppinions on what good gameplay is.

I hate the way gamers on forums and youtube are in general. There's a very small group of people who are unbiased, or even if not, they are rational and appreciate games they like on whatever platform. They are the severe minorty, unfortunately.

Trolling for the most part has gotten old, because we've seen it all haven't we? I don't know how much longer God/Jankarcop is going to run this PC dickriding parade on here. It got old long ago. But seriously I did find it funny at first, really.

And more than anything, I can't for the life of me understand why gamers on the internet base their opinions on what fanboys think or say. The amount of people on here that bash a game or hate a game just because a cow or a lem annoyed them or overhyped a game, ugh. These people have no substance to them in my eyes. Just suck it up and like what you like. There's a huge chunk of the Nintendo fanbase I really dislike, that doesn't stop me from loving Nintendo games.

All in all gamers are by far the most immature community of any medium. You just don't have equivalents to system wars for movie or music sites, and definately not literature sites. Think of it, an anticipated book releases and flops commercially and critically, the community laugh and call it a 'FLOP'. It's an absurd thing to even think.

^This plus watching traditional lets plays on youtube.

And I'll never understand the mindset of a fanboy and a biased hater.