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After Valve says no, Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs unite to get "very serious" about their very silly demand for a dwarf tag on Steam, and they want your help (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's just baffling

How is it baffling? Gamers are "idiots" in the sense that memes are usually more important than useful communication. This post is exactly the same type of thing, a "dwarf" tag doesn't really help communicate anything useful; am I more likely to want a "dwarf" game, or more likely to want a specific genre of game?

Starfield and RDR won their respective categories because gamers like to meme about. It's the same reason useless Steam reviews get highly upvoted, gamers like to meme about.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I really do hate those goofy ass reviews.

300 hours It’s okay I guess

Wow. So helpful in helping me decide if I want to spend my hard earned money on this game.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

What's even worse is the reviews like "I'm gay" that gets a ton of "helpful" awards. They're easy to scroll past, but it's indicative of the unhelpful nature of a lot of gamers.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not as bad as those asinine game guides that all say, "How to walk: press W lololol we're all so funny and goofy 🤪" stfu that was funny maybe once at most, now the whole community is flooded with that stupid shit.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Oh my god, yes I’ve seen those! I saw it on Dark Souls 2 community and thought it was funny because the in game messages other players leave are usually not helpful at all, so I didn’t really pay it much attention. Then I saw it in Death Stranding, Skyrim, Lunacid, and a few others.

Oh. One of the memes I guess. 😏