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here-there-were-dragons · 15 days ago

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yeah i probably ramble about this a lot more than i should, i've just been sitting on nearly 10 years of many-faceted frustration with the whole affair and-more importantly-the people involved in it that isn't going away any time soon and at this point it's like a sleeper activation phrase for my ongoing irritation. like, maybe recreating real-world modern late stage capitalism and resulting class divides and conservativism in our video games ISN'T fun actually

Whats stopping fr from giving galore clanbound sprites. Or have a new npc that enables quests that eventually unlock clambound sprites or something like bears or whatever other retired holiday thing there was

#even when there literally ISN'T a chance of their investments losing value (see:roundsey donations) they still hate it!#especially funny when the people that bitch the hardest about their “investments”#react to any criticism of their arguments by telling you that it's just a game and you shouldn't take it so seriously #and then also proceed to call you an entitled whiny baby again #not necessarily in that order #usually they call you that multiple different times #i don't know what it is with flight rising players and calling eachother entitled whiny babies specifically but it's always been a thing #they always jump straight to “you just want to be HANDED things rather than having to WORK for them”#meanwhile they're crying about how the staff should design the game to force the economy to revolve around them #and that if they ever do anything that even indirectly might affect the price of their “investments” by a single cent it's a faceslap #because “bitch until the hand of god rearranges the market so your stocks never even have a chance of losing value” is how investing works #apparently #also see: the freakout that happened over the joxar nymphs #for years every single thing has had to tiptoe around them and their dragon hoard of “Assets” that they never sell but think will someday #and how cranky they get every single time they see something even remotely shaped like whatever thing they're sitting on #i swear people treat these kinds of games the same way media companies treat owning ip licenses #“oh no we're not actually going to DO anything with this franchise. we just bought it to make sure no one else could either!”#and that (& the people who think they're temporarily inconvenienced billionaires) is the fraction of the playerbase staff always caters to

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