Gaming Skill Matters To Gaming In The Same Way Reading Is Necessary To Understand Literature >>
Overlooking the obvious fact that if you are writing about or even making games for a living then having at least a competent level of gaming skill is necessary, much in the same way being able to read is important if you want to comprehend literature.
The real issue here is that there are those that don’t want to acknowledge that gaming skill is a valid form of expertise. There are reasons as to why this situation has come about but it’s mainly to do with how the games industry is now currently structured.
In a political sense, if gaming expertise were to be openly acknowledged as being useful to the medium then most people in publishing would be out of a job.
Here we all were, innocently chucking rocks at the gaming press, when Old Man Forbes walks up and shoots it in the head.
this is why you need to git gud
SHOT IN THE HEAD
