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The Diablo clickbait is unreal, is the enshitification of the internet reaching the gaming communities now? (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by zebus@kbin.social to c/diablo@lemmy.world
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Does everyone just think they can make a living playing games? Trying to search for Diablo 4 info gets you nothing but mountains of useless clickbait youtube videos. Gotta waste my time jumping thru the video just to find out the guy is dumber about the game than I am.

Like I get it, YouTube is the only place you can monetize your "game knowledge", but still.. Why are there are only like two sites with build guides and info? And those two sites don't even have community builds, its just a couple guides written by some l33t dude we are suppose to trust. Why is there no useful discussion forums, discords, or at least something not in video format? If people care about becoming gaming influencers so much why can't we at least come out with a new monetization platform that doesn't suck and has a dislike button.

Anyone else sharing my rage?

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[–] zebus@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Cause you gotta get dem "views". Don't forget to smash that subscribe button.

The format makes no sense for the information being consumed, it's like this for their benefit not the viewers.

Even the Maxroll build guides are like, oh yea go view our youtube video to get all the info.

[–] Goronmon@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The format makes no sense for the information being consumed, it's like this for their benefit not the viewers.

People are trying to get paid in a market where no one wants to pay. That's why the format is being used.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Aside from ads, there's no low-friction payment scheme for content creators.

I'd be happy to pay for useful content, but it's really hard to do that with existing payment schemes.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

That doesn't make it more useful as a format, though. And there are zero things ethically wrong with preferring the concise, easily-referenced well of knowledge fans still very often provide each other for love of the game over something time-consuming that turns out repeatedly to be not the thing you were looking for at all.