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The Diablo clickbait is unreal, is the enshitification of the internet reaching the gaming communities now? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/diablo

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Does everyone just think they can make a living playing games? Trying to search for Diablo 4 info gets you nothing but mountains of useless clickbait youtube videos. Gotta waste my time jumping thru the video just to find out the guy is dumber about the game than I am.

Like I get it, YouTube is the only place you can monetize your "game knowledge", but still.. Why are there are only like two sites with build guides and info? And those two sites don't even have community builds, its just a couple guides written by some l33t dude we are suppose to trust. Why is there no useful discussion forums, discords, or at least something not in video format? If people care about becoming gaming influencers so much why can't we at least come out with a new monetization platform that doesn't suck and has a dislike button.

Anyone else sharing my rage?

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[–] fenynro 4 points 1 year ago

Conversely, not every aspect of society needs to be monetized and capitalized.

There existed a time when players made guides because they were passionate about the game, not because they were trying to hit engagement metrics or ad revenue breakpoints. The website GameFAQs, for example, holds thousands of user created guides, and many of them are extremely high quality.

Obviously this is not to say that we should expect all creators to work for free, especially if they're trying to make a career of it, but there's decades of precedent for passion-driven user created content and I don't think it's right to label it as entitlement when talking about the loss of those elements in a shift towards icy veins/maxroll paid guides.