[quote=Dipper]
Same with me - But when game developers actually take advice to dumb their games down from these people who, by their own admission, hate/suck at all video games, all gamers suffer.
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I doubt developers are taking "advice" from single idiots. They test these things with groups, like movies (depending on company). You don't look to a "reviewer" when you're selling to a mass market. On the whole most gamers aren't videogame masters.

http://trenchescomic.com/comic/

If you scroll down, on each comic you can read a story from someone actually in the industry. Usually it's something horrible.

"Anyway, the Vice-President of this very large corporation decided to drop by for a visit. We’d been warned beforehand of this visit. What we weren’t warned about was that the VP decided to drop in one of the matches we were in (testing connectivity issues with another country). We were given a quick “don’t do anything stupid” talk, so we played around on the game like you were “supposed to”.

A few minutes later, another call came down to cut loose. So we did, instantly turning the battlefield into chaos. The VP, needless to say, died very quickly. But what did happen, is one of the testers ran over to the VP’s body and teabagged it (as was the custom in those days).

Not a full minute passed before the test lead burst into the bay and screamed his lungs out, demanding to know who did it. None of us spoke, since we didn’t know who did the deed and the person who did it didn’t speak up.

So, after having a job where I got to play video games for a whole month, our entire section was unceremoniously fired."