If the main motivation is “to own the haters”, “to prove people wrong”, “to make a group mad” …then the game itself is a weaponized prop and That’s how you end up defending mid products harder than you’d ever defend great ones.

rooting for success out of spite isn’t healthier than rooting for failure out of spite

  • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I guess? The quality of the product can’t be divorced from the social conditions upon its release. I don’t care if a game is mid if it advances a positive social movement, and I don’t care about the quality if it advances a bad one. Harry Potter might be the game of the year, but I have ideological reasons for wanting it to fail. Conversely, I will buy mid games from people whose values and goals I support. Those facts affect my assessment and enjoyment of the product, since the game doesn’t exist in a vacuum.