That Which He Does Not Play

[Absimiliard]

It usually boils down to concern for one's privacy. Whether appropriate or unfounded, not everyone is comfortable with their mains being out there. Sometimes it's just a wanting to keep a low profile thing. Or, y'know, someone outspoken about their opinions might be concerned about possible in-game fallout. Could be any number of reasons.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It usually boils down to concern for one's privacy. Whether appropriate or unfounded, not everyone is comfortable with their mains being out there. Sometimes it's just a wanting to keep a low profile thing. Or, y'know, someone outspoken about their opinions might be concerned about possible in-game fallout. Could be any number of reasons.

In all my years of being called a white knight on the forums, I've had 1 person message me in game to tell me I was embarrassing Balmung... Balmung did a good enough job of that on its own. That was like.. 8 years ago lol.

[SturmChurro]

I think I remember in the Asmongold interview Yoshida talking about preferring hardcore or oldschool mmorpgs, and, of course, he is very busy.

I was talking about this on Discord, but I think IS would have been better received if it wasn't such a highlight for the expansion, and I feel like the only reason it was, is due to the lack of actual content (so far). On it's own, it's some average novelty content, if it had released alongside, soon after, or just prior to more lasting content it definitely would have been better received.

It usually boils down to concern for one's privacy. Whether appropriate or unfounded, not everyone is comfortable with their mains being out there. Sometimes it's just a wanting to keep a low profile thing. Or, y'know, someone outspoken about their opinions might be concerned about possible in-game fallout. Could be any number of reasons.

I've been lucky enough that I've had a decent amount of forum lurkers or a couple regulars message or chat me up in-game, and it was all positive.