Difficult experience in Forked Tower – a reminder to respect public content

[RuriStone]

That's easy. Don't do it, let the content languish and die as it deserved.

But then that's been the problem with this playerbase for a long time now, isn't it?

"Ugh, this tastes awful and I think it's actually making me sick." *Pays to gulp down another rancid spoonful anyway.*

Instead we have people trying to "force" the content to work via third-party methods and giving Square-Enix exactly what they wanted; People clearing the content so that means its working fine. I'm not sure the Discord groups realize that they're not admonishing Square-Enix for their mistake by engaging with the content, but are in fact giving them a pat on the back for their "effort".

You know it too, you know damn well they're going to take these agonizing successes as their own success and that they don't need to change anything. "But the Live Lettter!" We are banking on a MAYBE here, that's how far things have degraded, or more importantly... IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN THIS WAY TO BEGIN WITH.

And that's the funniest irony, and the one part where I do sympathize with hardcore players; They're so used to being beaten around and asked to be thankful, that the moment Yoshi-P raised the stick they immediately jumped and danced. Even as they're gritting their teeth and pulling their hair out over the whole process they just keep on dancing, hoping and praying it gets better "eventually".

Well... take a long hard look at how much casuals have been hoping and praying, we can tell you right now how that ends up.

Forked Tower COULD have been a true moment of solidarity, given how hard it was literally screwing EVERYONE over and that both sides could have come together in lambasting Square-Enix over it, maybe even boycotting it, and that it would have spoke a lot louder if had little to no engagement and zero clears... but instead a part of the playerbase saw it as another way to flex and dunk on others even as they screamed and whined about how much they hated trying to do it. Quite the amusing social test actually.

"You can sit this content out and help the casuals in getting it fixed for everyone, or do the content as-is ensuring nothing likely changes if it means the casuals get nothing yet again."

And whew, look at which choice got the most votes! Though its hardly a surprise, we saw the outcome over Chaotic. So yeah, that's why I don't buy for a second that any hardcore player or Discord group just wants to be buddy-buddy with me because I've seen TWICE NOW how they'll crawl over glass to keep the gate shut tight.
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And we can't even blame it on the WoW players coming over here and "infesting" our community because they've all long since left to go back to WoW. This is 100% us at our "finest".

hear hear!

[YovelaLindswood]

And we can't even blame it on the WoW players coming over here and "infesting" our community because they've all long since left to go back to WoW. This is 100% us at our "finest".

I resemble that statement! I'll infest wherever I want dang it! I shout for the horde in alliance chat in frontlines because how dare it be alliance chat and not horde chat!