Share your unfiltered, unpopular gaming opinions and let's dive into some real discussions. If you come across a view you disagree with, feel free to (respectfully) defend your perspective. I don't want to see anyone say stuff like "we're all entitled to our own opinions." Let's pretend like gaming is a science and we are all award winning scientists.
My Unpopular Opinion:
I believe the criticism against battle royales is often unwarranted. Most complaints revolve around constant content updates, microtransactions, and toxic player communities
Many criticize the frequent content updates, often cosmetic, as overwhelming. However, it's optional, and no other industry receives flak for releasing more. I've never seen anyone complain about too many Lays or coke flavors.
Pay-to-win concerns are mostly outdated; microtransactions are often for cosmetics. If you don't have the self control to not buy a purple glittery gun, then I'm glad you don't play the games anymore, but I don't think it makes the game bad.
The annoying player bases is the one I understand the most. I don't really have a point against this except that it's better to play with friends.
Overall I think battle royale games are pretty fun and rewarding. Some of my favorite gaming memories were playing stuff like apex legends late at night with friends or even playing minecraft hunger games with my cousins like 10 years ago. A long time ago I heard in a news segment that toy companies found out that people are willing to invest a lot of time and energy into winning ,if they know there will be a big reward at the end, and battle royales tap into that side of my brain.
This is just my opinion
Huh, I'm a software engineer, and when I get home, I'm excited to do stuff on my computer. I even like building software at home for fun.
I'm not big into tinkering with game settings though, I am much more excited about playing or making games than tuning them. So maybe that's what you don't like? I find the Steam Deck's defaults to be extremely reasonable and it feels just like a console.
I don't like using computers after work because it feels like work just turning it on. Idk why.
That's fair. I just don't have the same experience.
My hobbies are very similar to my day job (software engineer), but in a different tech stack (Python @ work, Rust @ home) and building different things (business logic @ work, distributed systems and games @ home).
Maybe it helps that I'm forced to use macOS at work (which I dislike), and I get to use Linux at home, so it really feels like separate things.
But then again, many of my coworkers don't have personal projects at home, so I'm probably just weird.
The OS differences probably help. I use Windows both at work and at home, so there's no difference. And it seems like every time I fire up my PC, something is wrong with it. I avoided fixing a problem for 6 months because I couldn't handle it emotionally after work lol. My hobbies are not tech-related other than gaming. I went into IT because the thing I have always been the least bad at is working with computers. I don't have any other skills I thought would help me make money when I was exploring options at college
Just curious how long you’ve been in your field?
I used to feel the same way but burnout slowly set in. I’m back to enjoying it again, but it did take a long break at home from the computer.
10-15 years. I'm now in a lead position, so I have management and planning responsibilities, but I still get 50-75% of my time to do dev work.
I have never experienced burnout, at least from SW dev, though I've certainly burned out on projects/companies. In fact, when I get burned out at work, I often relax by building SW at home (basically angry coding). For example, we had an overcomplicated bit of code at work, so over the weekend I built a POC that's a lot more elegant.
My main limitation here is that I have kids, so I don't get a ton of time after work (like 1-2hrs/day, on a good day). I also alternate with reading and playing video games because I also really enjoy those.
I guess I just really love my field. I'm hoping to retire early-ish so I can have more time to work on my projects.