Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[ThivraK]

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I've been playing for way less years than you but honestly, as we've talked extensively over reddit, it's a feeling I too share and it's sad. I met so many nice people throughout this game that didn't interest me at first, plus the story that, despite having boring parts here and there, fully sucked me in, which surprised me myself.

But then, in my eyes, the glaring issues appeared. The community at large enabling toxic behaviour, most of the self-proclaimed nice and welcoming people being the biggest hypocrites I've seen (especially on this forum and reddit), the playerbases performance seemingly plummeting even further before and during EW, more and more people weaponizing the TOS to police the tone of advice and whatnot. And, at least in this forums case, the moderation enabling this hypocrisy as well.

It's only a few levels for the last 5 classes I gotta level but man, the desire I felt to max them out is completely gone vs the desire I had pre-EW, not to mention the lack of desire to play at all? And I know I'm not alone with this in my FC/circle, as not only the savage raiders but also the casual players like me experience more and more "rinhlettes" during their roulettes and are met with hostility* if they try to help

*someone from my circle was genuinely surprised that I tried to help a struggling tank with advice during stone vigil and didn't just pull more for them, as they've not had anybody tried to help them when they picked up the game over a year ago. Imagine a community so deep down into the enabling behaviour and keeping your mouth shut because saying something is seen as a personal attack that it completely stops giving advice altogether

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

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One of my FC mates had to all but bribe me to get on and do Sohm Al with them on their alt for the story, lmao. I just have that little interest in logging in lately, outside of scheduled in-game RP and DMing our Saturday events. I healed for them, we did a couple roulettes after while I was on (and I instantly regretted asking to do that, hoo boy those runs were giant messes), then I immediately bounced back off to Elden Ring.

I'm lucky that for the most part, my FC is full of close friends I can talk to outside the game (and who also tend to go on extended breaks during patch lulls, too), so I'm not losing that aspect at least. Just a shame when I genuinely do enjoy most content in this game and absolutely love doing dungeons, but just have zero desire to deal with everything lately. I'm hoping 6.1 reignites the spark somehow, but as things stand right now I'm severely doubting it.

Most of my FC are disappointed with how the housing stuff is gonna go in 6.1. :x We've had one member holding on to a small Shiro house all for the sake of relocating to Ishgard one day, and now even that's been complicated. I, personally, really kind of wanted to move us to that nice Mist large on the hill one day... but with how housing is right now, it's a bit of an impossible dream. I feel like the lottery system will only make it even less viable. Luckily most of us have come to love the Goblet and our little private island, but still.

For me, after how EW was obviously rushed out and the interviews speaking about a ton of rewrites to it before finalizing, I'm not exactly hopeful for any new story arc that we begin in 6.1... and the disappointment with the story has kept me from leveling my WoL alt, who I love and adore and had an absolute blast taking through the story from ARR to ShB. ;~; I miss her, but I just don't really feel a tug to replay EW right now like I did ShB and HW. I don't want to skip it on her either, though, as the entire point of the character was an 'official' WoL to go through the story start to finish on.

Ah well. 3-day weekend from capitalism grind, and I plan to enjoy it on Elden Ring; one of my best friends finally was able to pick it up, and they're a Soulsborne baby like I was, so I can't wait to help them through things like my co-lead helped me when I first got started in it!