thatindianguy wrote:That's not exactly what those articles were.
What they said was that gaming culture was dead. They tried to paint gaming culture as it already exists is something awful that will die put soon.
Obviously this pistes off people involved in it.
I can see that. But I also think it's true...sort of. Not that it's awful, but that it's changing and changing fast. I suppose I think of it like board games. Most people occasionally play Monopoly or whatever. But there are also hardcore gaming nerds who have twenty-six expansion packs for Settlers of Catan. They're a different breed.
Gaming has certainly become a lot more mainstream, in the sense that everyone and their granny has played some sort of computer game, even if it's Farmville or something. Nevertheless, there will always be hardcore gamers.
I suppose people don't like having their identity "taken away", especially when that identity might be something they stuck with even though it got them sneered at by more mainstream folks. It's like the "geek is chic" thing - okay, it's cool to be a nerd now? Fine, then please retroactively un-bully me. I can see why it rubs people the wrong way.