/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4194595

People are still blaming GG/4chan even today for supposedly-evil things, so.
I doubt it's because they actively despise other modders, though, they're probably just clueless and parroting.

It's a bit of an avalanche effect.
See, I noticed when my mod first appeared on an e-journalist site I was fucking ecstatic
someone noticed my hard work! It was cool and great! They got a little detail wrong but it was still cool!
Then I noticed, all of a sudden, seven different other sites had to run the same article talking about the same mod using suspiciously-similar wording, even repeating a fact that was just plain wrong.
They don't actually care about Doom, they're looking at headlines other people are doing and copying them, changing them a bit. Brutal Doom does this a lot, so it's constantly spreading around. Because of this, it spreads across the public consciousness more and more.

Gaming journalism is a joke. Always was. Still is.
The greater community doesn't care about Doom outside of headlines and clicks--look at when the world record in Doom was broken last year (or was it year before?). Happened once, one site reported on it, dozens of others copied it.
Then the record got broken again and again and again. Silence. Pure silence.
Mods like Doom Delta don't bring in clicks. Who cares that it broke the Doom alpha curse that has been plaguing the community for decades? Brutal Doom brings in clicks. Especially if it treats Mark like a misunderstood genius, because people will be pointing and laughing at it or rushing to angrily comment about it, which means more clicks.
So they write, then parrot, then regurgitate, and around and around it goes.

Fuck games journalists.