Article on kotaku about gamers and gaming

Fenris Wolf · Jan 20, 2015

Interesting article about changes in the gaming community...

This comment really sums up Elite for me:

Kotaku said:
this isn't a product, it's a culture

You can read the article here:
The People Who Only Play One Video Game

prophet1 · Jan 20, 2015

Hmm, for me it more likely sums up MOBAs and WoW-style MMO gaming culture. Which I could never get into and actually actively avoid like the plague.

Personally, I love Elite but even if all my dreams about upcoming expansions come true and it becomes the best game ever, I could never play just this one game and nothing else. But maybe I'm just getting too old and wrong generation.

Derath · Jan 20, 2015

Kotaku wouldn't know a game if someone beat all the staff to death with a copy of deus ex while shouting "JC IS LOVE JC IS LIFE"

Edit: felt like i'd come back and add some detail, Mobas get viewed as sports by the diehard fans just like sports are viewed, some people live football some people live league of legends or dota 2 this isn't new its just become mainstream recently with the progression of Esports on the whole, mmos have the same thing going I'm sure everyone here knows somebody thats probably played WoW for years (insert any other mmo they love)

scorpyon · Jan 20, 2015

My #GamerGate sense is tingling....

I can't bring myself to read Kotaku with a straight face any more these days...

RealNC · Jan 20, 2015

Kotaku... Isn't that a group of people writing nonsense in a self-entitled attitude, trying hard to make it sound as if they actually have a clue what it is they're writing about?

"I wanna be a games journalist! I don't play video games and have no idea about the matter, but I so wanna be a games journalist!"

"Hired! Welcome to the team."

WiseDuck · Jan 20, 2015

Yea, a culture of moaners and single player fanatics. welcome to ED.

And it's typical that a games "journalist" stands in a crowd of "gamers" and has no clue what is going on around him, he, like most of the games journalists are completely out of touch with the people they are trying to serve.

Logios · Jan 20, 2015

RealNC said:
Kotaku... Isn't that a group of people writing nonsense in a self-entitled attitude, trying hard to make it sound as if they actually have a clue what it is they're writing about?

"I wanna be a games journalist! I don't play video games and have no idea about the matter, but I so wanna be a games journalist!"

"Hired! Welcome to the team."

This is one of the more accurate descriptions of Kotaku I've seen, but don't forget they must also have a deep hatred for their consumers before being hired.

Derath · Jan 20, 2015

RealNC said:
Kotaku... Isn't that a group of people writing nonsense in a self-entitled attitude, trying hard to make it sound as if they actually have a clue what it is they're writing about?

"I wanna be a games journalist! I don't play video games and have no idea about the matter, but I so wanna be a games journalist!"

"Hired! Welcome to the team."

LOL this was great, have some rep sir

Issmir · Jan 20, 2015

Actually I thought this article was interesting and well written. It's an op-ed, but it's an interesting one.

By the way... Is gamersgate even still a thing? Man that makes me feel sad.

Perjoss · Jan 20, 2015

WiseDuck said:
And it's typical that a games "journalist" stands in a crowd of "gamers" and has no clue what is going on around him, he, like most of the games journalists are completely out of touch with the people they are trying to serve.

You just need to look harder if you want to find people that report on gaming and have a great deal of knowledge of many aspects of the gaming industry that you didn't even know existed. They are out there, you just need to be more picky about what you read or listen to. I like both ends of the spectrum, there's 1 particular podcast I listen to for example that consists of 2 or 3 guys and they literally have not 1 single clue among them, but its actually very entertaining and funny to hear them get things wrong over and over, I guess its a bit like watching one of those youtube fail compilations where people fall over and stuff.

Logios · Jan 20, 2015

Issmir said:
Actually I thought this article was interesting and well written. It's an op-ed, but it's an interesting one.

By the way... Is gamersgate even still a thing? Man that makes me feel sad.

How is a consumer revolt against an industry that attacked it's consumers by calling them everything in the book from "misogynists" to "racists" for no reason a bad thing?

Hexcaliber · Jan 20, 2015

Kotaku article, ok, whatever... they still going?

Issmir · Jan 20, 2015

Logios said:
How is a consumer revolt against an industry that attacked it's consumers by calling them everything in the book from "misogynists" to "racists" for no reason a bad thing?

So yes, it is.

Well, I don't in any way agree with your rendition of the events, but fair enough.

McDosy · Jan 20, 2015

WiseDuck said:
And it's typical that a games "journalist" stands in a crowd of "gamers" and has no clue what is going on around him, he, like most of the games journalists are completely out of touch with the people they are trying to serve.

World of Tanks I've played. I don't understand League of Legends at all though. Or EVE, for that matter. Do you?

That's kind of the point of the article. Gaming is so broad and deep a subject that some one single person being an expert on all of it is no longer a realistic prospect.

There are people by the millions for who gaming is a single game, so they're not a crowd of "gamers" anymore, they're a crowd of "LoLers". A games journalist isn't enough, you need a specialist LoL correspondent.

Slacker · Jan 20, 2015

I won't visit Kotaku any more since they're paid by the click and they're anti-gamer by order of the owner.

lexandro · Jan 20, 2015

People who only play ONE game?

BOVINE FECES.

Sure they might play a game exclusively for a time. But they will never play just one and only one game in their lifetime. And they will get bored and want to try something else at some point.

And FYI as an actual World of Tanks player in the higher ranked tanks/AT/Scouts, the way its desribed is frankly more bovine feces. Its just another supposedly free PvP game with "pay to win". Its fun but it sure as shizzle aint a one and only one type of game. It just ain't that good and most of the players are pretty crap too.

Issmir · Jan 20, 2015

lexandro said:
People who only play ONE game?

BOVINE FECES.

Sure they might play a game exclusively for a time. But they will never play just one and only one game in their lifetime. And they will get bored and want to try something else at some point.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. But for a while player do latch on to just one game. I don't know if that's more true now than it was 10 or 20 years ago, but it's still an interesting phenomenon to look at from the outside.

RealNC · Jan 20, 2015

Issmir said:
Yeah, I'd agree with that. But for a while player do latch on to just one game. I don't know if that's more true now than it was 10 or 20 years ago, but it's still an interesting phenomenon to look at from the outside.

People played Quake back in the day. Others played Ultima Online. Many people had "that one game I play 99% of the time."

This is just typical Kotaku writing nonsense wrapped in a believable voice of authority.

Zylark · Jan 20, 2015

It'd be more typical - even if pretty hardcore in a given game - to also have a few other go-to games that are entirely different. Keeps one getting bored of ones main-game.

These days, I do quite a lot of Elite gaming naturally. But also a bit of KSP, Prison Architect and Wreckfest. Even Euro-Truck Simulator 2, though that isn't *entirely* different from Elite

Pete · Jan 20, 2015

I was playing a LOT of League of Legends...then E : D gamma came out, and I finally set up my X52 Pro, and I haven't had a single League of Legends battle since...and I don't PvP in E : D either...

-- Pete.