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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
There is a very loud minority who want to be angry about everything and who make this crusade their entire identity, and amplifying those voices in order to create a "bad guy" creates publicity and attention for the game such that people want to praise it just to stick it to those troglodytes. This has been a marketing strategy used by nearly every major Disney / Amazon project for the past 5 years or so. And there are also plenty of people in media - regardless of sector or industry - who know they can generate outrage clicks by talking about the "controversy".
Just ignore it, and figure out if it's a good game based on the people who seem to be critiquing or praising it on that basis. It's mildly annoying to try to sift through the culture war bull#### to find actual legitimate well-founded opinion, but not THAT hard.
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Well said.
I think there’s a glimmer of hope on this front as well. Some of the worst on this front, like IGN, are seeing layoffs right now because it’s not working as a business model.
Perhaps people have finally grown tired of exactly what you lay out in your post. The industry will be far better off when this is the case, and this out-rage based screaming (I’ll refuse to call it ‘journalism’) has finally died off.