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Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That feels like it could be phrased better. The title and the various quotes all have very different implications. It matters why your 'demonizing' and what more than just whether it was something you were going to play. I mean, I'm not going to be buying any Call of Duty games. I'm also not going to pretend that they aren't cynically produced pablum designed to feed off of malignant elements of American culture. I'm not going to demonize them for the aspects of the game I won't experience as a non-player, but it's absolutely reasonable to criticise them for the things they undeniably do.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, I think the conditionals put on the statement are enough. If you’re not in Call of Duty’s audience, that’s fine: Don’t endlessly rag on it. Talk about games you like, instead of centering the conversation on what you don’t.

The cultural things you mention might make sense if you read about a school shooting and theorize “Man, this guy must’ve played too much Call of Duty.” But when discussing the industry or what we play, it’s unproductive to keep bringing up the big names in the room if you don’t care about them. Let the “GTA 6 Release Trailer” go uncommented instead of grandly announcing how much you don’t care.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago

Three things:

Did you read the article? The title frames it one way. A written quote from Kaplan frames it another way, and the audio from the embedded clip frames it a third way. It's not totally clear which framing to talk about.
Are you seriously trying to suggest it's sensible to connect playing video games and becoming a school shooter in 2026? The issues with CoD as a cultural object are not an imagined bogeyman from the nineties. I don't have the time to sit and explain it just now, but you can find plenty of critical thought regarding CoD if you look around. Dan Olsen has done a video if you want something easy to consume.
None of the framings are talking about 'grandly announcing how much you don't care.' Kaplan seems to be talking about ostensibly unjustified, overtly negative coverage, a.k.a. hatin', which I would agree is probably unproductive, and it would be dumb to criticise content quality of something you haven't experienced, but it can't be illegitimate to criticize the effect of something you don't consume, or the only people who would be legitimately able to complain about something's effect would be its fans, who are thoroughly biased.