Voices in the Crowd
I’ve been thinking a lot about yesterday’s post. I don’t apologize for a lot of it. Most of it had to be said. Perhaps it was not as celebratory as it should’ve been. This is Game Praisers, but I also need to state some crap going on. And while it is all true, we should continue in a different iteration.
Let’s be honest, I’m a pretty…pessimistic person. I don’t know if it’s my anxiety and me thinking about bad things over and over and over again. Supposedly I have a dark sense of humour as well, but I can’t really tell. So I admit I do tend to focus on the negative, which is partially why I started Game Praisers to help me be more positive. While this has indeed helped me see the positives of video gaming, especially with the good community I’ve run into here, people are a whole different matter.
I’m trying to see and understand that there are so many good people in the game community. I have had good experience in Genshin Impact, and I’m sorry if I made it seem like I didn’t appreciate it. It is a really fun game and I absolutely love the world and its characters. I let the loud voices of the ugly people get the best of me. I have met people who wanted to learn more about Chinese culture, and that’s all I’m going to say.
Look in any place where the players are allowed to say anything, and there will be loud, supported, angry players whinging about the most unimportant or specific of things. Once you’re allowed to be anonymous, people will say the worst of things, but I have to also remember that most of the crowd consists of the silent majority. There are a lot of people that are good that support others and they just don’t say anything.
All the kind Guild Wars 2 players that go out of the way to help me when I’m down are a good example. Guild Wars 2 seems to have an abnormal amount of kind people in it. On the Steam launch, which I believe happened yesterday, there were tons of people that were prepared to help new players. It was so wonderful. There are loud, irritating people in Guild Wars 2 still, but there are just so many nice people that they get drowned out. I really wouldn’t mind that in the other game communities.
But that’s just it. I bet they are there. They’re just quiet. They’re reading. They’re ignoring the comments. They just love their game and play it. I’ve been thinking about this a ton since yesterday and I am so happy and joyful that there are cool people out there in the gaming community that I genuinely would like to meet. Although, I will probably disappear afterward and never be heard from again because I will be overthinking everything, but there is hope in it all.
It is good to have hope in the gaming community, because, let’s be honest, it usually doesn’t look great for us. I think I have to change my perspective a bit and have more hope. I don’t want to become insensitive to the rude people I always see, but I also need to keep myself focused on the hope that there is still humanity left in the community of gaming.
Thanks for sticking around! I’ll see you again soon.
Elise
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