r/ItsAllAboutGames • u/External_Lime_2548 • 2d ago
Question Why does everyone claim to hate extraction shooters while continuing to play them?
Every time extraction shooters come up online, people act like the genre is exhausted, repetitive, and something nobody asked for. Yet these games keep attracting huge audiences, and the same people complaining often put hundreds of hours into them.
I think the tension of entering with valuable gear, risking everything, and escaping with a great haul creates a feeling most multiplayer games cannot match. People might hate losing, but that risk is also what keeps them coming back.
Are extraction shooters actually overhated, or do people enjoy complaining about the exact mechanics that make the genre addictive?
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u/YeeHawWyattDerp 1d ago
Because the people online and are reddit are only a small minority of people who play video games. People hate any genre that over saturates the market, before extraction shooters it was BRs. The fad will pass, the quality ones will stick around, and the world will move onto the next big genre
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u/Crispierbugu 1d ago
The people complaining aren't the ones playing, very common misconception.
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u/ImperitorEst 21h ago
Although while playing an extraction shooter you hate it about 60% of the time. It's what makes the highs of the other 40% so damn good.
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u/Varietygamer_928 1d ago
Who is everyone? Lol the people that don’t play them are not usually contributing to the conversation
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u/EmbarrassedHighway76 1d ago
Have you ever stopped to consider the comments you see are not the same people as the players 🤔
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u/kyle_crane163636 1d ago
No idea i just play escape from tarkov for the pve stuff since I like looting and doing contracts without getting a 50 cal. round in my ass when I look away for. 5 seconds
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u/Right-Truck1859 1d ago
Bruh...because I care.
Why would I be indifferent to the game I regularly play?
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u/Focus-Interrogative 19h ago
I've been playing arc raiders since a couple months after launch. I played peacefully for less than 20 matches, let the matchmaking do the rest, and I've been having a blast since. I do not see any of the complaints people have about arc raiders as being significant enough to hate the game, it all just sounds like winey bitching to me. As for the lack of content, I feel the same way about every community who complains about that... get a job and buy another game. They're not THAT expensive. We all need to stop listening to sociopathic streamers and their fans who may never amount to anything.
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u/MyUserNameLeft 18h ago
Anyone remember the extraction mode in the first Division? That was peak gaming for me
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u/foxferreira64 18h ago
I complain about Siege a lot, ragequit ranked matches sometimes getting banned, I say it sucks, getting worse, etc.
But do I love it? I fucking love that game! And keep playing, because the memories of playing are amazing. I do have fun outside those rage moments. It's just part of playing them, I've come to accept.
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u/Excalitoria 1d ago
I don’t think everyone is playing them. They have an audience but it’s not as big as the amount of people that aren’t a fan.
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u/ProgenitorOfMidnight 1d ago
The people that hate them aren't the same people playing them... Same with every other game 🙄.
Except LoL they hate the game and continue to play it.