Recently, I've been seeing an influx of posts from this subreddit since we are a few weeks away from relaunch as I've heard from the Splitgate community and man oh man. I swear I don't know if some people are just miserable inside or just think that they are fighting the good fight when in reality they are the ones that are killing the passionate and constructive part of gaming. The gaming community needs a huge community shift on how they view video games and I'm going to explain why.

Constructive Nature Is Almost Non-Existent

Gone the days where gamers were more open-minded and was open to give feedback to the games that they loved instead of just bombarding negativity because of their favorite content creators or the majority. They take "takes" so seriously that they forget that gaming conceptually is just subjective and not everyone is going to like the same things that you do. For example, I love Splitgate 1 to death, but to me, Splitgate 2 is smoother, has better gunplay, movement is awesome, etc. Yes, Splitgate 2 is nowhere near perfect and has its issues & developers did not do good decisions during the window of the launch, but the game has very high potential as an arena shooter and that's the reason why I'm still here and the community-driven aspect of 1047 Games.

It's kind of hard to go back to sg1 because of those things and sg2 really is my default fps game and I can't play anything else since It's hard to because sg2's foundational framework of how it works is just really good and to be honest, I haven't found one game that comes close to that in the past few years of the fps genre, I know someone will bring this up, as much as I love The Finals, it's not the fps game that I would main or anything. Battlefield 6 is a whole different game, black ops 7 is well... black ops 7, arc raiders is an extraction shooter... So whole different genre, it was sad to see what happened with XDefiant since I was so hyped for that game since it was an arcade shooter alternative to cod, however it's been gone now, and I wish Ubisoft just made the same choice that 1047 did with SG1 with a p2p server browser. Compared to other people, I'm not full on hating on modern cod (MP only btw) since it has its downsides and upsides but, it's very tiresome to sweat every time and have to focus and use unnecessary movement tech just to have fun with the game. It being more micro-positional based just makes it mundane at times and just wishes that it reintroduces that macro-positioning back a little bit. I know we are still far off from this game releasing but, Halo Campaign Evolved is not interesting to me in the slightest since I've already played Halo CE via MCC even if they add new missions and skulls or whatever. Yeah, Splitgate 2 is really the only game that I've enjoyed so much this year and I've been wanting an arena shooter other than halo for a while myself.

I'm Not Trying To Spread/Force Toxic Positivity, However I Do Want To Be Constructively Optimistic.

There is a concept that I want to share to you all that I learned myself and that is called "Intentional Gaming", and this might shift your mindset or even slightly. Now to sum this up it's basically like this, you're going into the game blind without looking at the online reviews from vocal critics and forming your own opinion on do you enjoy the game or not. And this in turn makes the experience yours. When you make an experience just based around yourself, this gives your mind creative freedom and allows you to not gravitate into someone else's opinion into your opinion and in turn repeat it in other communities and eventually it becomes a hivemind of toxicity and yes, I'm going to say it, cult-like behavior.

When I play a game when a lot of people dislike it which I will use Splitgate 2 as a prime example, I'm like dude. Did we really play the same Splitgate 2? And that's because I went in with an open-mind and did not look at reviews whatsoever during the 1st open beta when playing sg2 for the first time. Anyways, I really value the concept of feedback. Being able to talk about the good things and the bad things and allow the developers to fix the bad things is a blessing. And if we can just take this route, we all (gamers and developers) can simply just make the experience better for everybody. And that's whats missing in the gaming community and instead turns into a constant of negative videos and posts on social media either hating/dooming or glazing a video game and not in between. We all need to understand this ideal. "Games & media are not perfect and there will be games that doesn't exactly align with the vision of the majority of players, there will be mishaps along the way, therefore we all have the power of constructive criticism to change that and look into the future instead of dwelling on the past which will not change anything."

I know that regardless of anything I say to those types of people that just want to say "dead game" all day wouldn't give a care in the world what I have to say, and that's okay. For the ones that genuinely care for Splitgate's future and at the same time points out the issues of the game then, I hope this post gave you a good read. Developers and everyone that made it possible to make Splitgate where it's at today, no matter what happens, there is one thing I want to say to everyone before I wrap this post up. (Also, I'm probably going to be uploading clips here before the relaunch that's happening on December 17th.)

"Never, lose your passion and creativity in any media or in your hobbies, because if you do, then you lose the concept of what it means to have the creative aspects of a human."