Gaming's "Toxic Positivity" Problem

Toxic Positivity is a phrase that doesn't refer to gamers online behavior in game, but rather the way that some will violently defend a product or company from any criticism like they're shilling. Like how gaming media and online forums were trying to villanize the people criticizing Concord before that spectacularly failed.

Its like you aren't allowed to say something that isn't positive about games anymore (not even negative, even neutral comments are taken as "negative" and must be silenced at all costs). I mean, certain games like Star Wars Outlaws, Concord, Assassin's Creed Shadows, etc.

Kinda like how the average Lemmy user acts with Linux.

If you watched the video you'd know your comment is completely misplaced.

I feel like this problem might be somewhat endemic to the US?

In my experience, US culture in general is a lot more positive about everything. Like, if someone from the US is not praising the living shit out of something, that means they didn't like it.
Whereas here in Germany, it's usually the other way around. If you don't find anything to grumble about, that's the highest form of praise.
Obviously, US culture isn't one massive blob, the extremely positive folks are probably just those I notice the most, but maybe that's also what the video author is fed up with.

Well, and then people from the US tend to also be a lot more positive about companies in general, presumably a remainder from Cold War propaganda. The journalists/entertainers from Germany and the UK that I watch, do criticize games quite directly...