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@witchfynder_finder like FUCK people who side with the templars in DA2 i would never

@witchfynder_finder yeah i mean interestingly i don’t have this complaint about, say, Dragon Age

@witchfynder_finder i think a lot of people treat games more like roleplay than like reading and that might be where this difference comes from

like i want to appreciate the story as a story not just roleplay my way through it over and over

but i’m not sure that’s the common fan approach

@witchfynder_finder usually with the justification of “i can’t do that to her” or “she deserves better”

like yeah she DOES deserve better but also that’s part of her story and to me it feels kind of like you’re doing her a disservice to willfully pretend like it’s not

@witchfynder_finder they are doing lots of playthroughs but specifically avoiding the endings where X character dies young every time

@witchfynder_finder what’s weird about it is that there are a set number of endings written into the game, right, and those are all like, part of the game, and people are just willfully avoiding some parts of it

idk to me it’s like skipping chapters of a book because you don’t want the characters to suffer

@noelle not sure what news you’re talking about, but…

i think part of the problem is a lack of recognition of the importance of publishers and a lack of diversity in that scene relative to studios… we have, like, Annapurna Interactive and Finji??

if you don’t have a good publisher backing whatever project you’re working on, then all of the problems of publishing and capitalism are going to infiltrate your studio. that’s a problem for anyone working on the scale at which games are usually launched