3/26/2023 0 Comments Carrion game cover artYou're acting as if people on here are review bombing Metacritic when the most public attention we recieve is either 1) on Twitter or 2) when developers talk about us. Nobody from this thread is leaving one-star reviews anywhere. If you're leaving a poor, one-star review on Yelp because a tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant failed to meet your expectations under criteria of hygeine, food quality, level of service, or dining atmosphere, then fine. but a lot of people have dozens, if not hundreds, of games, and after X amount of time might forget what icon goes to what product if there's no visible title. You can say that people should know what the game is if they bought it. I don't really participate in this thread, but I'm thankful for people who politely request devs follow the guideline and include titles, because to do otherwise makes your game icon incongruent with most others. visible title on icon), but because people on Twitter are losing their shit over it. not because this thread exists, wherein people just drop in for some occasional light commentary on icons, including when they don't adhere to Nintendo's recommendations (e.g. People have limited time and resources with which to buy and play games, and neither developers nor publishers are entitled to people's consumption of their entertainment product. It's "fine" for people to skip any game for any reason - petty or not. If "you should actually try the product before you decide whether it's for you" is not viewed by you as a compelling argument, then I cannot, in turn, view a bad faith, false equivalence argument like "it's the same as leaving a bad review for a restaurant", or even worse "these bad icons are like putting an explicit human sex organ front and center" with your vagina analogue, as compelling arguments. One of my favorite restaurants is a local Indian joint that looks humble on the outside, but is out of this world in the flavor department, once you get to actually tasting their food. I would argue the exact same thing in the case of the self-published author's book cover. If you're leaving that same poor, one-star review because you never even entered the restaurant, never even tasted the food, never even so much as exchanged a single word with the waitstaff, but instead saw the sign out front and thought to yourself "Man, that is one ugly sign!", then there's your accurate point of comparison. You mention novels but, in that world you'd rarely find someone who might legitimately argue that "Actually, if you make the cover of your book look like a literal vagina it's OK because people would be petty for not spending upwards of £15 on it." Yet in gaming it's suddenly a personal almost cultural issue of pettiness and 'entitlement' if someone does not like an icon that looks like a vagina, and it's apparently personally justified for people who's job it is to market those games to start calling their own customer base childish names because of that.Ĭlick to shrink.If you're leaving a poor, one-star review on Yelp because a tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant failed to meet your expectations under criteria of hygeine, food quality, level of service, or dining atmosphere, then fine. This notion that indie developers are somehow exempt from the concepts of 'marketing' is a weird one. That's not exactly a very compelling argument for why one should purchase a product. Whether you like it or not it's not the role of the customer to spend their money just because they should 'give something a chance'. Much the same way it wouldn't be a personal thing if someone left a poor review for a tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant, or if someone take umbrage with a small self-published author's book's cover. As such it shouldn't be a personal thing if, for whatever reason, someone decides not to purchase their product (and, in turn, dedicate time to playing it). Indie developers are businesses selling products, and that doesn't change because they are considerably less 'corporate' than the likes of Nintendo or Sega.
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