I have no idea but if I had to guess, I'd say the audience of PC Gamer is PC gamers, and the average PC gamer fucking sucks

The average vocal PC gamer also tends to have the top of the line components, so I just tend to think it's not the gaming part that makes them entitled little assholes; it's being rich.

I doubt that the average PC gamer is commenting on those articles.

Unionization is also super uncommon at these game development companies. Would definitely help prevent layoffs. True for every industry again, but they are underrepresented here.

Hank Green actually posted a video relevant to this yesterday. He was reading a Fox News article about a machine that can turn C02 into fuel that an internal combustion engine can use.

He then scrolled to the comments and saw all the posts talking about climate change being a hoax. He says it would be very easy to assume the average Fox News reader is a climate change denier. If you were to ask him how many people in the US deny climate change is real, he'd guess around 50%. However, surveys have consistently shown it is less than 10%. It is a minority of people. His point was that people leaving stupid comments are not the average person, they're just really vocal, and try not to assume stupid comments are reflective of the average person's beliefs.

how i see it, pcgamer sometimes has high effort posts like this and other times has some really low effort posts, sometimes almost cyclical as they often use the same image pool over several topics (e.g its a meme that anything witcher related, pcgamer will use geralt in a tub as a header image)

because of the less serious posts, it kinda blots out the more serious ones.

So basically incompetent leadership falling ass backwards in tons of cash from your successes.

You can't even assume those people are people. There's a lot of bot powered disinformation out there.

Unionization doesn’t prevent layoffs. It’s clear you have never been in a union.

It does not but the game industry has a lot of parallel to the movie industry l where some parts are very unionized.

It currently applies most to the game and tech industries

It doesn’t always, but it can. I have been in a union. But thanks for assuming you know anything about me douchebag.

It's not unique but the games industry is worse than most.

There's a natural cycle to the development of a video game that's very atypical for most software products, involving a long slow ramp up of workforce followed by (unless you've been very very careful) a total lack of anything productive for 95% of any of those people to do for the forseeable future. What to do? Toss 'em on the street, that's what to do. Then couple that with it being a glitzy career that will attract lots of replacements for any of the hapless people you fired, which also applies to any way you want to abuse your employees or underpay them, and you have a recipe for lots and lots of abuse.

Very true. I vaguely recall someone on another thread saying a game is "unplayable" if it's not running 4k resolution and that PC gamers with 4k monitors are the majority

I regularly hear similar things about refresh rates, like "once you try a 144hz monitor you can't go back" — meanwhile, I power-limit my GPU to get ~50fps when the summer gets too hot

I some discussion about Nvidia somebody what complaining how they were used to 200 fps at 4K but some graphics cards couldn't do it with raytracing on without using DLSS.

As somebody else in that thread said, it's masturbatory fps numbers.

Unionization doesn’t always prevent layoffs

Fixed that for you.

I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that unionization NEVER prevents or at least helps to prevent spurious mass layoffs, since that would make you a total imbecile about how labor relations in general and collective bargaining in particular works or at best an otherwise rational victim of gaslighting disinformation campaigns carried out on behalf of the people doing the layoffs.