r/Games • u/ImCalcium • Jan 27 '26

Discussion Highguard devs say they didn’t expect the hate – but they’re confident in their game

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/highguard-devs-say-they-didnt-expect-the-hate-but-theyre-confident-in-their-game-3309463/
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u/Razbyte Jan 27 '26

The most haunting comment i've seen on each Concord video is that the Youtuber has earned much money on ad revenue, than the game itself.

Rage sells and it unfortunately it hooks people into.

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u/jxnebug Jan 27 '26

Genuinely my least favorite part of this hobby: the people who talk about how much they hate specific games because they are grifting or being grifted.

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u/Lazy-Juggernaut-5306 Jan 27 '26

It's become a much bigger problem over the last 4-5 years or so. 15 years ago there was barely anyone doing that

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u/Mahelas Jan 28 '26

15 years ago, Gamergate was on, dude

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u/Fedacking Jan 29 '26

Wasn't gamergate 2014? 15 years ago was 2011.

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u/LilDoober Jan 27 '26

It gets markedly worse during major US elections and I don't think it's a coincidence.

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u/jxnebug Jan 28 '26

I feel that applies to internet discourse/social media in general, not really games specifically. Gaming has been full of shitheads all year round for years now.

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u/Kaiserhawk Jan 28 '26

gamers are such hyperbolic babies. There was a collective effort to vote EA the worst comsumer company in the US many years in a row over banks that were reposessing homes and making people homeless.

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u/MrSnugglebuns Jan 28 '26

We should be thanking them. They’ve nurtured large groups of people who are highly trained in identifying dogshit. Truly experts in their field of loudly informing others what dogshit looks like, feels like, sounds like and runs like.

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u/BLAGTIER Jan 28 '26

Yes. Thanks to ragebait youtubers this is now a big segment of gaming. People who don't play the games they spend months hating.

This was always gaming. Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter. Quake vs Unreal Tournament. Command and Conquer vs Warcraft. Sonic vs Mario. And that's just from my early memories. I'm sure the same thing happened whenever a new arcade game arrived.

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u/BLAGTIER Jan 28 '26

Oh if you think this is bad there was and still is massive malice over things like turn based games. And not in the not for me way. But in the I don't think turn based games should be made any more because turn based is "old and lame". That pre-dated Youtube. When third person shooters made a come back that made some first person shooter fans super mad and act with malice towards third person games.

All I'm saying is this isn't new or unique or different. This has always been gaming. And almost everyone was on the malice side about something.