Uncharted 4 spoils : When internet and forums become disgusting

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GribbleGrunger said:

Teeqoz said:

Are you incapable of realizing that there may be people that intend to play the game (myself included) that haven't yet done so? And that your post will spoil the game for those people (as it already did for me)? Is it so hard for you to see this and just apoligize and edit in a spoiler tag, or are you seriously gonna continue trying to justify it?

You're holding me to a standard that not ONE single person on ANY forum is adhering to. TLOU is being discussed openly EVERYWHERE. After recently just getting into a huge argument on GAF because some posters don't understand how they're spoiling UC4, it's an insult to consider me a prick, unless you think that the entire world is a prick for talking openly about the game. You've read it now so it makes no difference and to be honest, having played the game after that was told to me, it was absolutely the smallest spoiler the guy could have told me. It's literally the first thing you think when you play the game. I'm sorry that spoilt it for you but there comes a time when you don't use spoiler tags.

I'll be looking forward to your views on the game.

There's no real standard anywhere on when spoiling a game is alright. It's definitely subjective. Some people like you think a year or three are alright. These two recent phenomena called retro gaming and HD re-releases are lengthening the time frames people are actually playing video games. The idea that if someone hasn't played a game in the first 3 years of its release, they probably never will is a broad and unrealistic assumption based only on your perspective. The market determines that and the way we are consuming games now, plenty of people are playing games years and even decade(s) later (WindWaker HD was one for me).

Because that's subjective, the time frame really doesn't matter, one way or another. You have your opinion about when it's alright to spoil a game and others have different ones. Like I stated, there really is no standard.

The issue, however, is that in your post about spoiling a game in an unrelated post you do the very same thing you were damning another person for (you literally quoted him). So if the other guy is a prick for doing it, why wouldn't you be considered the same?

However much time passes, even if you were talking about the friggin' Sixth Sense or Titanic's endings, your point will never come across if you are doing the same thing you are complaining about. Just use the spoiler tags in those instances.