- Jan 25, 2018
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It's kind of entertaining to realise that allowing commissioned characters has to be making some of the writers seethe.
"I write my characters the way I write them because fuck the power fantasy of the player, you power-fantasying player bastard with main character syndrome" meanwhile: people actually paying money to get exactly that.
It's really symbolic of how instead of having a single, concrete vision that people writing for the game were required to subscribe to, the "oh we need to keep the project going " mission creep has created an irrecoverable mess of clashing directions that struggles to satisfy anybody.
And as someone who's worked in the public service on controversial political topics believe me when I say I know this when I see it lmao.
"I write my characters the way I write them because fuck the power fantasy of the player, you power-fantasying player bastard with main character syndrome" meanwhile: people actually paying money to get exactly that.
It's really symbolic of how instead of having a single, concrete vision that people writing for the game were required to subscribe to, the "oh we need to keep the project going " mission creep has created an irrecoverable mess of clashing directions that struggles to satisfy anybody.
And as someone who's worked in the public service on controversial political topics believe me when I say I know this when I see it lmao.
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