Doclector said:
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but my country is currently spiralling into xenophobia due to the tragic murder of an off duty british soldier in the street by a couple of mental bastards with machetes, unemployment doesn't seem to be getting any better, individuality is being damn near systematically wiped out, everything's always getting more expensive, the xbox one is unbelievably, god awfully bad and anti-consumer, personally my tutors are dicks who don't seem to know what the hell they're talking about, telling us to constantly read completely irrelevent bullshit whilst seemingly not reading our essays properly before marking them (I'm serious, my last feedback ran almost completely counter to the actual essay, no this is not all in my head it outright contradicted what the essay actually contained), the people i'm supposed to be getting therapy from appear to be ignoring me, and a lifetime of loneliness and rejection by everything from girls to society itself has never looked more likely.
Yeah, i'm running low on things to be positive about. At least the nostalgia critic seems to be getting better again.
Oh, and if you're thinking of saying something like "WELL YOU HAS ELECTRICITY AND INTERNET" just don't. We all know that shit only helps on a bit of a bad day, it doesn't do shit against a major downer.
I don't give a flying fuck if you don't like hugs or ponies, YOU WILL HAVE ALL MY HUGS!!!! ACCEPT IT!! [i]ACCEPT THE HAPPY!!![/i] :3 [footnote]Seriously though, I want to give you a hug now.[/footnote]
On topic: Eh, seems to be the usual amount of cynicism to me. It's to be expected, actually. After all, there's a lot of really stupid crap that's been going on in the AAA industry for quite some time now and the next console generation is seeming to be setting things up to get much worse. Even though so many game journalists / critics / personalities as well as average core gamers in general have made their thoughts on all the anti-consumer practices very well known in both polite and not-so-polite ways, none of the offending companies seem to pay heed to any of it whatsoever and continue to do things that are quite frankly pissing their customers off.
By the looks of things, the Xbox One may have been the final straw for a lot of people, as the words of numerous high-level Microsoft employees seem to be painting a dark picture of what's to come. Even though Microsoft has backpedaled from some of these statements, the fact that it was the Microsoft VP who said many of them as well as what little we have had Microsoft confirm without backpedaling makes what once seemed like mere paranoia as actually plausible now. Add to that the lackluster PS4 reveal and the disappointing launch of the Wii U, and the next generation of consoles really doesn't leave people with much to be optimistic about. The collapse of numerous once-legendary game studios / publishers / franchises as well as many high-profile AAA games selling very well yet being regarded as disappointments and even disasters only adds more fuel to the proverbial fire.
To put it short, the gaming industry as a whole may be doing fine, but the AAA console scene seems to be falling apart entirely due to a combination of customer dissatisfaction and numerous juggernaut companies preferring to stay as they are and stagnate rather than adapt to the scenario at hand and repair their fragmented relationship with their customer-base. The industry as a whole is in good shape, but much of the AAA market will be unsustainable if things keep heading in the direction that they have been. Too many companies are already losing money even on huge successes. They simply cannot afford to damage the faith of customers any more, yet it seems like they're going to do just that.
Now take into account that most people here genuinely care about the gaming industry - even the AAA market - as well as current global events and whatever other issues they may be facing within their day-to-day lives or even within their own fandoms and the reasons for all this cynicism become clear.
[b][u]IMPORTANT:[/u][/b] I will say this though - if you want things to get better, try making more positive threads and being a source of positivity for people. Complaining about complaining doesn't really lead anywhere except to more complaining. Try to help people relax and remind them of the good, rather than focusing on the bad and condemning them. As the old saying goes, "You will catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
