/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3828418
>>3828405

What this comes down to, ultimately, is branding.
Xaser is a name associated with something you know, and thus neurologically you're more likely to go to it. It's safe and familiar. The brain likes safe and familiar. Whether or not you actually like the mod or not, you're more likely to download it--even if just to shit on it.
How many people here who downloaded Blade of Agony actually liked it? If you're the ones who knew you wouldn't like it but downloaded it anyway, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Joe Doomer, on the other hand, is not a brand. He's new and different. And the brain naturally tends to shy away from trying new things, because we want things to be safe and comfortable. Even if it's just as small as "trying a new map".

>>2194117
>i don't think i'd even be aware there was a problem with new gzdoom
The tl;dr of the matter is that nobody really knows what's up. You have new computers who can't run it, then you have old computers that can run it, people from first world countries that can't run it, people from outer countries that can run it, and there doesn't seem to be any real consistent pattern.
Some people take offense to the idea that they can run a slew of modern games perfectly fine but then can't run a source port for a 20-year-old game, others insist that GZDoom has always been a high-end source port and ergo it makes sense that it requires the latest and greatest tech.
What tops this off is that Graf Zahl is, in a single word, unpleasant. He is unpleasant to interact with, unpleasant to discuss things with, is notoriously stubborn, and oftentimes has turned down reasonable suggestions just because--so quite a few people don't even care to report issues or even discuss this with him.

This all comes down to one single result: There's certainly some fuckery going on.
We don't know the extent of the fuckery (whether it's a small handful of people or if the GZDoom-playing population is now just a fraction), we don't know how to properly address the fuckery (in previous threads, some faggots loved to throw fits about people running "toasters" when even modern computers couldn't run it), and then of course there's the problem of modders--a lot of modders want to take advantage of the new features (and a lot of new features are sexy indeed), so trying to tell them to scale back for the sake of compatibility with an easier version is kind of a rude thing to do. It's not unlike begging for people to make Zandronum-compatible versions of their mods. Some people just don't want to scale that far back.