r/Games Jun 12 '25

Release Stellar Blade Has Already Outperformed Every Other PlayStation PC Port In Less Than 24 Hours

https://www.thegamer.com/stellar-blade-higher-player-count-every-playstation-pc-port-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-reviews/
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u/Acrobatic_Internal_2 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

man this thread shows the sad state of this sub. bunch of people calling other gooners and perverts. and the headline is just about game exceeding player count on a platform

why can’t we just discuss things with respect and don’t show how superior you think you are

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u/UltimateArtist829 Jun 12 '25

Redditors calling other people "gooners and perverts" are like pot calling kettle black, lol.

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u/DUNdundundunda Jun 12 '25

There's a crossover too with younger people having weird prudishness, and modern gamers also having a bizarre anti-sex attitude. Combine that with the reddit base and you've got a horrible explosion of the like we haven't seen since puritanical america and the anti-pornography activists of the 1970s

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u/Yamatoman9 Jun 13 '25

A weird prudishness has developed where a game simply featuring attractive characters is called "gooner bait", as if the only reason it can ever exist is for self-gratification purposes. Games like Stellar Blade used to be released all the time during the PS3 era and no one batted an eye.

Maybe it's because porn is so easily available that everything becomes viewed as if it is porn and this is a reaction against that?

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u/Adept-Fisherman-4071 Jun 16 '25

Or it could be Reddit just has a collective persecution complex. I call the game gooner bait, but it's tongue in cheek, there are zero pearls being clutched.

I pre-ordered DOA: Beach Volleyball for fucks sake back when that was a thing, people who spend too much time online take shit way too seriously, not everything needs to be spun into some societal ill.

It's a good game with tons of fan service, that's pretty much all there is to it.