I know he's a journalist; wasn't clear about that. Just wondering what got him and Schrier to moan about people's expectations of Gamejournos covering Indies.
I don't know what specifically in this case, but ever since GamerGate (well, technically before GamerGate) game journos stopped covering indies unless they had to gain from it. ie. It was some pretentious twoddle, or they were "friends" with the dev. It has long been an example of a dereliction of duty, because the point of the games press is to cover games. They try and make the excuse that they can't cover everything, so why cover anything, but no one buys it.
doesn't really matter anyway, no one gives a shit what some journo thinks. plenty of alternative sources these days to spread word of mouth, starting with someone's favorite streamer and ending with steam's discovery queue and other store mechanics.
As I just said, they don't have to. They never had to. That line is just cope for them refusing to cover games they should simply because they don't want to do their job, or have a problem with the devs. Again, Kingdom Come Deliverance wasn't some roguelike thrown together by a no-name dev with stock assets and unity plug ins.
Not only did they never have to, no one ever asked them to. The "we can't review every roguelike indie game" is an excuse(the blonde chick who used to write for IGN even mentioned this in a video) as an excuse of why every game gets a 7/10, because they can't review the bad games. Which is of course bullshit since not every tiny indie game is a 5/10 or lower either. Yet a big supposedly AAAA game like skull and bones that should have received a 5/10 or lower managed... a 7 while veilguard was getting 9s and 10s everywhere(should have also received a 5-6 or so out of 10). The simple truth is that if they started giving bad games from EA, Ubisoft, etc. the shit scores they deserve, they'd risk losing access and advertising dollars.
Lol they gave VG a 9 but then all of the hosts shit on it constantly in their podcasts, at best damning it with the feint praise of "okay" and "not for me."
Sure, but their podcast doesn't matter and never did. But it was every damn game journo outlet giving the fucking game a 9 or 10 knowing full well it wasn't deserved but just had to tell their audiences they were wrong because gamers don't know wtf they're talking about when it comes to playing videogames.
Its weird how people are somehow saying that Bioware has only now gone woke or got bad, they were having issues with both since DA 2.
He got mad about a linkedin post by Henrique Olifiers, head of Bossa games, who complained that game journos werent interested in writing about any games but only talked to him when they announced layoffs, how they're only interested in covering stuff like layoffs and drama and not actually the games themselves
Don't believe your lying lie eyes, believe the lies of some lying fucks who have never told anything but lies. You know, the same guys who simultaneously told us on the same day "gamers are dead," using identical cut-and-pasted language, after organizing it in a secret mailing list, as if nobody would notice.
They'd cover some shitty Twine game by some whore who had sucked their dicks (and had originally sucked another dude's dick to write the game for her) before any actual game.
That's honestly pretty funny considering it isn't exactly difficult to come up with a reason to dislike the mrbeast shit without needing to lie about him.
Does he not realize that's because AAA studios give the companies money to do it?
