Come join us to talk about the new Bethesda game Starfield. There has been some angry people who set really high expectations for the game and now are mad the game didn’t meet their fake expectations.
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I do the same for pretty much everything these days. Between news bites about every little thing about production, to trailers with way too much…everything, it feels like if one’s not careful, the entire thing will be known before it even comes out. That goes for games, movies, shows, etc. I find the experience much more enjoyable when I avoid those info dumps as much as possible.
And yeah, “fan” spaces online seem to inevitably become toxic pits of negativity if it’s not proactively negated. I’m sure an entire study could be done on it all, but my cursory conclusion is that it’s a result of 1) constantly focusing on one thing, and 2) finding the small flaws in that thing that become “bigger” by focusing on them for too long. People tend to let objectively small issues that are really only a small part taint their opinion of the whole.