DV created a bit of a lack of faith for new petsites going forward for a lot of people from what I've seen, and given that LW is showing those same signs of mismanagement and fumbling, maybe it's a kneejerk reaction at this point. People love FR, and it's a high bar to reach, but that should just become a motivator for new competitors to come in and do better than what any of them are doing right now. I've had people specifically tell me that LW looks interesting, but that they're not going to play or trade their FR stuff for anything because as it is right now, the foundation looks shaky. I've never encountered someone like you described though? And I'm in a ton of Discords and I think I've seen every post about LW so far on here...
I've been critical of LW in other posts, but I'm not rooting for it to fail. I highly doubt anyone is, really. My frustration, and many others is because I want the game to succeed, but everything I've discovered in the Early Access (which was never addressed nor changed come launch, hell they made things worse with the upgrades costing premium currency) gave me the same warning signs that DV gave me. And the fact that all of this fell on deaf ears is an exact repeat of how DV went. They fixed things at launch, finally, (talking about both LW and DV here) but it was too little too late for some people, and for others they just see it as a way to retain those new people joining in before everything all crumbles and it goes to shit, which is how DV went.
I agree that competition is important, though I'm reluctant to agree with you that all of this behind the scenes stuff is due to LW. Didn't this happen with Veilspuns, too? FR staff had already began livestreaming more with the carousel recolors and gene fixes, and this was months before LW was set to launch. DV was dead in the water at this point, so...
I won't deny that FR staff is probably more motivated to do some of their stuff because of a new petsite launch, but honestly when LWs launch hit I hardly saw this pattern in behaviour you're talking about. FR is very anti crunch, so I doubt they would try to push something out to try to take some of that hype back, as well. These ancient streams started a few weeks after LWs launch, you'd figure it'd be sooner if that were the case.
I know you're trying to differentiate people who express dislike from those who automatically want LW to fail, but... "it feels like some people are sitting at the edge of their seats and circling like vultures over any tiny little misstep in the hopes that it will fail" in relation to the people in this comm, at least...
Have you seen what people have been talking about here? The monetization system and layered RNG? I would hardly call those tiny missteps. I'd love to know more about what you're talking about, because I've never seen these vultures here nor in Discords.
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I've been critical of LW in other posts, but I'm not rooting for it to fail. I highly doubt anyone is, really. My frustration, and many others is because I want the game to succeed, but everything I've discovered in the Early Access (which was never addressed nor changed come launch, hell they made things worse with the upgrades costing premium currency) gave me the same warning signs that DV gave me. And the fact that all of this fell on deaf ears is an exact repeat of how DV went. They fixed things at launch, finally, (talking about both LW and DV here) but it was too little too late for some people, and for others they just see it as a way to retain those new people joining in before everything all crumbles and it goes to shit, which is how DV went.
I agree that competition is important, though I'm reluctant to agree with you that all of this behind the scenes stuff is due to LW. Didn't this happen with Veilspuns, too? FR staff had already began livestreaming more with the carousel recolors and gene fixes, and this was months before LW was set to launch. DV was dead in the water at this point, so...
I won't deny that FR staff is probably more motivated to do some of their stuff because of a new petsite launch, but honestly when LWs launch hit I hardly saw this pattern in behaviour you're talking about. FR is very anti crunch, so I doubt they would try to push something out to try to take some of that hype back, as well. These ancient streams started a few weeks after LWs launch, you'd figure it'd be sooner if that were the case.
I know you're trying to differentiate people who express dislike from those who automatically want LW to fail, but... "it feels like some people are sitting at the edge of their seats and circling like vultures over any tiny little misstep in the hopes that it will fail" in relation to the people in this comm, at least...
Have you seen what people have been talking about here? The monetization system and layered RNG? I would hardly call those tiny missteps. I'd love to know more about what you're talking about, because I've never seen these vultures here nor in Discords.