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Why watch a video with such a pointlessly clickbait title?
Because it is a good video by a channel that makes quality game related content.
Its not the fault of a channel that google made an atrocious sorting algorithm.
They could have made the title about the fact that FPS wasn't a term at the time instead of using a question that is worded in the present tense.
"What genre was Doom when it was released"
I share your frustration, but YouTube offers you a choice: use honest titles and suffer at the hands of the algorithm, or use clickbait and get access to a much wider audience.
If the creator needs to use clickbait in order to have the funding to produce higher quality videos, I find it hard to hold them personally responsible for the systemic issues of the platform.
And that's fine, I just won't watch those videos. The channels I tend to watch have pretty clear titles, e.g. Gamer's Nexus and Digital Foundry are awesome.
I'll take this one: Wolfenstein Clone.
It makes no sense to call something a clone when it was made by the same studio that made the original. Very few wanted to call quake a doom clone.
It's an interesting and entertaining video. That was the reason for me at least
How did you know that it would be entertaining before watching the video?
What the hell is the passage of time anyway?
It's from Ahoy, that's how I knew
Now imagine someone doesn't have any idea who Ahoy is and you might understand why they wouldn't want to just watch a video with a clickbait title.
You asked why someone would want to watch it and I answered why I wanted to lol. At no point had I trouble understanding why someone wouldn't want to
Yup, I've never watched one of their videos, and if this is how they make their headlines, I probably never will.
What about the title is clickbaity? There's no "the answer is going to surprise you", no surprised face in the thumbnail, no "you won't believe what happened next". The video examines the question in the title.