Gaming Skill Matters To Gaming In The Same Way Reading Is Necessary To Understand Literature

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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.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS GIT GUD

Gaming Skill Matters To Gaming In The Same Way Reading Is Necessary To Understand Literature