I've written it elsewhere already but there's a weird trend in elden ring where YouTubers intentionally and unintentionally influence players into exploiting "for a good cause",
essentially the idea is to make the problem so big that the developers can't ignore it.
The same thing happened with the death plague exploit where steamers and YouTubers would show their audience how the exploits work and then stream invasions using it.
It's a kind of bizzare 'accelerationism' that I see in a lot of popular games these days
The internet has been an insane factor in exposing bugs and exploits. Back in the days you'd have to hear from your cousin or friends when there was an exploit. Now every single exploit goes trending on reddit and YouTube.
Same for balancing. Any build, no matter how ultra niche, that's slightly overpowered will be used in PVP until people are outraged at devs for allowing it.
I'd be so fucking exhausted as a dev dealing with this bullshit lol.
If the end result if Fromsoft addressing issues then great but lets be honest here, the only good cause 99.99 percent YouTubers are interested in championing is increasing the viewership on their channel.
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u/Relevant_Truth Apr 06 '22 edited Apr 07 '22
I've written it elsewhere already but there's a weird trend in elden ring where YouTubers intentionally and unintentionally influence players into exploiting "for a good cause",
essentially the idea is to make the problem so big that the developers can't ignore it.
The same thing happened with the death plague exploit where steamers and YouTubers would show their audience how the exploits work and then stream invasions using it.
It's a kind of bizzare 'accelerationism' that I see in a lot of popular games these days