Yeah the immediate party love is very lame. They don't beef or even disagreements, they only have this false feeling chemistry that forced. Even in the Avengers they beef for a good portion of the movie then gradually learn to vibe with each other, there are many a jrpg group that does this.
Hacks gonna be hacks I guess.
It's one of the biggest arguments that the power fantasy whine from the devs is serious projection. Their power fantasy is making your PC comparatively powerless (e.g. to create or manage or control inter-party tension), so if their outcome demands the party gets on despite writing
pages upon fucking pages about how the "lore" would suggest some serious issues, then they'll chuck the lore out.
Like, If you take a step back and look at too may interactions in this game from Savin or those who think like him, it boils down to "Here's the outcome I want, I'll write backwards to get it". Compared to "What would this character actually do in a situation, given the writing I have already established?". Throw in a lot of openly "I did this to fuck with people I didn't like from COC1/That forum/This forum" and behold, the ouroboros of hate.
That's why I went on that rant a while back about how I just hate the way the people who write for this game treat people who get booted out. It's some cruel cultist stuff, and it's all predicated on keeping the game going (and the scam is not the game, the scam is that the game isn't an extension of the writers power fantasy). And again, blah blah blah I'm some anonymous know-nothing on the internet projecting my own projections into a videogame forum.
But its why I keep checking this thread - yeah maybe it is repeating the same points over and over, but I 100% think that most people in this thread are way further along seeing now plain nasty that crew is now than they were 200 pages ago. Plus, the fact is anyone can check my post history on this forum and see I'm a lot less hateful of a person than anyone writing for this game writing pages and pages about how the contributor they just kicked off the ship sucked actually to anyone looking to praise or defend them.