brainwave about the game difficulty wank

[yvannairie]

Do self-identifying gamers get so mad about people wanting accessibility options because they read that criticism coming from a place of entitlement (or preference, to use a less harsh word) as their complaints about the lack of preferred features/content?

Can it be that simple?

It would explain why they seem to mentally add "and that's why it's bad" at the end of "this game lacks accessibility features" and then argue that the germ jurnalists are dishonestly not judging the game by its own merit. You also see this pattern any time a journo says anything positive about a game's diversity -- the argument the self-identified gamer sets out to debunk isn't "this game is good and diverse" but rather "the diversity makes this game good"

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[yvannairie]

In my experience, Let's players themselves aren't really talked about, other than if their attitudes transgress somehow (i.e. they play on easy or are arbitrarily "bad" or whatever). People who consume games through Let's plays are looked down on.

And... Yeah, putting it like that, it's def clear it's another instance of social conservatism, and a disinterest in solutions that don't involve changing the person with the problem. They're against people asking for resources to be spent on helping that particular group, b/c they themselves will not benefit from it, even when it doesn't hinder them in any way.