> This is quite an incredibly toxic and negative piece
The author might have a negative take on things and you might not like the article but to brand the article as "incredibly toxic" is a bit of a hyperbole.
Well to me it's toxic when it opens with the achievements (being successful in the business for 27 years) then shits on the whole industry and their own customers (treat your own players as idiots) in a holier than thou attitude. Just very bitter.
It’s not bitter at all. It’s self-deprecating and funny. The author, Jeff, has been making games that I’ve been playing for their story and gameplay alone (the graphics are truly terrible) since the 90’s.
Jeff is irreverent and highly opinionated but absolutely not “holier than thou.” He knows his games are ugly and played only by a tiny niche. The only thing he can remotely claim to be better at than most people is running a video game studio that manages to support his small household.
The title is "Sx truths", meaning there's no room for argument, interpretation or nuance. It's not his opinion, they're not observations, they are truths. That sets the tone for a strongly opinionated point of view, that ultimately failed to provide suficient proof for most of its examples, making it a rant.
And rants are fine, but trying to present it as the profound observations of a veteran with 20 something years of wisdom that shits on everyone's favourites without many arguments ("The Last of Us [...] having a story as good as a medium-quality zombie movie" is not an argument) comes of as toxic.
The whole article feels like OP is upset about something behind the scenes and just had to rumble about it
Maybe it's even sarcasm, you never know nowdays