“Unfortunately, he’s right”: Streamer Asmongold calls out those responsible for BioWare’s closure — some players agree
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
Journalists reportedly distorted feedback and created false impressions about player expectations.
BioWare was recently closed down, and the cancellation of development on a new entry in the Mass Effect franchise was also announced. Players began recalling Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which was widely criticized online, even though many outlets gave it 9–10 points out of 10.
A clip of streamer Asmongold speaking out has gone viral in the gaming community. He links layoffs across the gaming industry to developers like BioWare being out of touch with players’ real expectations.
According to the streamer, false perceptions about what gamers want arose because of games journalists who award high scores to games that the broader audience disliked:
The main thing I want to say is that I place a special amount of blame on all of the games journalists who constantly try to dismiss criticism from actual players and then spin it and try to make it seem invalid for ideological reasons. I place a special amount of blame on every single game journalist that gave [Dragon Age: The Veilguard] a 9 out of 10. Anybody who praised it just to be contrarian. I genuinely believe that those people are responsible for these studios closing down.
Many participants in the discussion agreed with Asmongold’s stance:
To be honest, he’s not really wrong. The market is the only guide you need. Sales, money, players. The big three; — 12birb
Unfortunately… He’s right about this. Negative reinforcement plays a very important role in human learning. That’s how we develop and learn to avoid mistakes. The past two years of massive industry layoffs have shown that the “participation trophy” culture hurt these studios more than it helped; — stikves
He’s right. Games journalists aren’t art critics: they act as intermediaries between the audience and the companies that make games. If journalists don’t fulfill their role, companies get the wrong signals, their games don’t sell, and hundreds or thousands of employees can lose their livelihoods; — dayvsterdev
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