Quote Originally Posted by Amarande View Post
Ah, but is it really nonsense?
Yes, it is nonsense. People just make dumb mistakes in PF (they do in statics aswell but that naturally isnt in public groups). There is no need for anyone to go in and sabotage groups. On top of that run sellers are small operations, they have better things to do. That's not where the big RMT money is made because you need actual people to do it instead of a legion of crafter, gatherer and eureka bots. If you have followed any of their threads, you'd know that katt is way beyond jumping at shadows and the proof presented has ranged from not understanding jokes to downright meaningless. The people in PF are often just not that good and if every group you are in sucks, then you might need to look for the common denominator. Not a lot of people will like to do that however so they are quick to blame someone else. When everything and everyone else is in on it in your eyes and only out to get you, then you might have just constructed a conspiracy theory in place of the far far more reasonable conclusion that people might just not be that good at the game. As a community we are already extremely unforgiving for mistakes in PF and I'm not excluding myself from that assessment either.

The particular hatred against content creators is especially strange. Many of them create guides specifically so that more people clear the content with as little problems as possible because the more players participate in a type of content, the more attention it can get. I completely understand not like xeno for example. But if you go down the parasocial fan to hatewatcher pipeline you have no grounds to stand on and are just desperatly searching for justification.

The accusation goes way beyond giving failed item codes to buddies, it goes as far as directly informing world first raiders of how to do mechanics and which exploits to use. When world first raiders specifically do not want that to be the case at all because that defeats the purpose of the race. A race that SE already wants as little as possible to do with because they dont want to disrupt a careful balance. In typical conspiracy theory fashion we are also flip flopping between 'SE is in on it as a whole and is purposefully creating exploits for run sellers' and 'this is purely western GMs passing on unintentional exploits to their buddies'. You cant have it both ways.

If you see evil lurking in every lobby then it really might just be better to take your leave. People clear stuff in PF all the time. It's just a gamble everytime you go in, as any single mistake at a bad time can be run ending. That's the nature of how the content is designed. Dont jump to assuming malice when incompetence is the more reasonable explanation.