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?
Yes and no in sharing the rage. I can understand the how and why, but I also decide not to consume it for the most part. If I look for info, builds etc in games I always go to discord communities where I can get info bite-sized and written instead.
The videos themselves are so strange, why spend 15 minutes talking about something that could be written in 1-2 A4 pages. Builds in games especially are something that just is so much better written, rather than spoken.
Cause you gotta get dem “views”. Don’t forget to smash that subscribe button.
The format makes no sense for the information being consumed, it’s like this for their benefit not the viewers.
Even the Maxroll build guides are like, oh yea go view our youtube video to get all the info.
People are trying to get paid in a market where no one wants to pay. That’s why the format is being used.
Aside from ads, there’s no low-friction payment scheme for content creators.
I’d be happy to pay for useful content, but it’s really hard to do that with existing payment schemes.
That doesn’t make it more useful as a format, though. And there are zero things ethically wrong with preferring the concise, easily-referenced well of knowledge fans still very often provide each other for love of the game over something time-consuming that turns out repeatedly to be not the thing you were looking for at all.
Attention spans. News content these days are moving to video other text to better grab your attention. When everything is really engaging, you have to be more engaging than that to get seen.
As someone who’s not an auditory/visual learner I feel personally attacked by this. I skipped class and stayed home and read the book/notes for a reason.
I agree. I much prefer text stuff. It’s hard deny the shift though. Looking at TikTok as an extreme example, a whole generation is getting their news from someone doing a dance while two other videos play of cutting playdough. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but I do think it’s really hurting our ability as a species to exist without attention hacking.
If you’ve managed to exist outside of that band of information exchange, I commend you.