• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    That’s wild. I’ve only been there 5.5 yrs and I’ve noticed dramatic shifts in the culture as it’s become popular and profit focused

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Same, I was on it for more than a decade. There’s definitely been dramatic shifts. Dunno what small community that other poster stuck to to not see any changes over a decade and a half, but it must have been fun for them.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      4 months ago

      I used to on for about 10 and noticed a dramatic shift but on the other hand for years I was only looking at gaming subs then started looking at the more common ones. So that could possibly be part of it but it still seemed to get worse over time to me.

      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        I unsubscribed to all the gaming subs around gamergate, holy shit everything went downhill so quickly and never really recovered. We’re seeing the effects of it to this day.

        I refused to participate in gaming communities online for a long time after that, only looked at my RSS feeds for news/official announcements. The migration to Lemmy last year has me participating in them a bit more again, as long as I don’t tell anyone I’m playing a Nintendo game, lol.

          • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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            4 months ago

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign)

            Literally the event that accelerated the bullshit “Woke Video Games” pushback we see mouth breathers spewing in gaming spaces today. I believe this is what spawned r/KotakuInAction and the whole “It’s About Ethics™️ in Gaming Journalism” as well, but someone correct me if I’m wrong.

            These exact talking points and methods were then taken up by the alt-right to propel the culture war into the mainstream, and welcome to 2024.