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A reminder to not take online negativity too seriously
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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This is called survivorship bias
I wonder if the opposite principle also has a name.
The first comment imo. is fair. It says that the market is saturated, so it is difficult to succeed, but it doesn't rule it out by default.
The other two comments are just plain hostile and ended up being wrong. Lets call it dead troll bias or something?
Not really. It should be obvious that not every indie game will be super successful. This is just proof that some random reddit comments saying a game looks boring from an early trailer don't mean shit, because basically everything will have those.
Right so it's not really proof of anything.
Well it's kind of proof that the opinions of haters don't meant shit. If both good/successful games and bad/unsuccessful games have them and they don't affect the outcome at all, they have no value.
No it's not.
The only way to get better at things is to do them. While losers were playing video games to get their instant gratification, this winner was working towards a skill that they could use and build for the rest of their life.
Out of everyone criticizing him, I'd wager less than 10% have any knowledge at all of game development. They will never get that knowledge because they're losers who are afraid to learn. Learning means admitting you don't know and coming to terms with all the time you've wasted on bullshit.
I miss the days when gaming wasn't cool.
Okay, let's not start throwing around unnecessary insults. Calling people "losers" because they play video games is just insulting your own customer base. I don't know anyone who develops games but doesn't play them. Let's not tar everyone with the same brush.
Might as well give up before even trying! Wtf is this defeatist attitude.
Oh come on. It's a perfectly valid point. For everyone who has a successful game there are probably thousands of people who don't. It does no one any good at all to suggest that all you have to do is believe in yourself. You also have to make a good product, and generally just be lucky.
Plenty of people rightfully don't go into video game development because they cannot afford to not earn their money back, if you are lucky enough to be able to risk it, then absolutely go for it, but if you were living paycheck to paycheck it unfortunately isn't a reasonable ambition.
Not every game will be successful, on this we fully agree. But for every successful product there will be effort that needs to be expended. There will be struggles and failures along the way and criticisms will abound. The point that I take from the post is that it's not worth giving into the negativity and let that detract from your efforts. "Don't take the negativity too seriously" is a perfectly valid message, against which the "survivorship bias" criticism is poorly levied.
The takeaway here isn't and shouldn't be quit your job and pursue your dreams in all scenarios.
WTF is this feelgood fascism?
What has fascism got to do with any of this?
No need to get technical. It is a colloquial term to describe the "think positive' evangelism which implies that failure is due to just not thinking positive enough.