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I believe that gaming is so fundamentally different now. Twitch, YouTube and other services have produced instant access to streams of the best players in the world and thousands of players crowd sourcing all of their knowledge online in discord, comment sections, subreddits, YouTube, and wherever else...
it's produced a phenomenon where a community for a game inevitably speed runs everything about it within like 7 days. Any new meta or piece of content can go from novel to completely documented in no time at all.
This changes the way developers think about competitive gaming and even cool story games where you might hide Easter eggs. It changes how they build the game and their choices.
The onus is on the player to actively not seek that info out in games. And in competitive shooters that is to their detriment.
I'm just an old guy yelling at clouds, but it removed some of the magic of the experience when now you just Google (game)"current meta"
Having been playing online games since the practically the advent of them, nothing in that area has really changed. We had guides and frag videos even back in the days of Doom and even community support forums and chat rooms for MUDs and MUSHes in the real early days.
What's really changed is that the space has grown. More people playing games means more people are also showing tips and tricks for games along with better technology allowing for better guides.
Yes, but the size matters. And the prevalence and reach those top tier info sharers have. Now it's not even a question of whether or not you run into people playing with that knowledge. It's assured in every competitive game in nearly every match.
A personal example would be halo 2 jump tech. A friend of mine showed me a few videos on 2005 YouTube showcasing cool jumps on lockout and a few other maps (not super bouncing, different things).
I was able to leverage that for like the entire life of halo 2 online with people rarely ever understanding what I was doing.
Today everyone everywhere would know that because the biggest halo streamers would make it so common.