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[socksuke_uchiha]

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[(Anonymous)]

slow progress is absolutely fine and expected but not when your game is set to end within a particularly short timeframe

[(Anonymous)]

da Like... is it going to die before we get there, or are we going to bad end? Because those thing are mutually exclusive and you sound pretty upset about the latter while crying that the former is going to happen.

[(Anonymous)]

i don't think the game dying and bad end are mutually exclusive tbqh. technically.

not when you're trying to have fun and build cr and characterization and reach a goal in a game for, what? a year or so for some people? yikes. definitely a bad end.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry, you're not making any sense to me. Both are bad (well, kinda. I signed on knowing a bad end was possible and have been joking about it for a year so it's not exactly horrifying to me), but either the game dies or it makes it to the planned endgame. It can't do both.

[(Anonymous)]

i think what anon was trying to say is that the game dying is a kind of "bad end" but not the kind most people want/are ok with

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Oh that makes way more sense. Thanks anon.

another DA

[(Anonymous)]

I won't pretend this isn't something that makes me uneasy, too. I really want our characters to at least get resolution or do something that makes it feel like all the effort mattered, even if we don't get a good end, and the short time frame does worry me.

In all the discussions I've seen about that aspect of it, though, I don't recall the mods ever stating a firm end date, or even anyone going to the mods to ask them for one. 2 to 2.5 years sounds to me like there's wiggle room, and we don't know how set that time frame really is or how hardassed the mods will really be if we get close but would fall short by an ooc month or whatever.

dda

[(Anonymous)]

maybe we should ask about it? i know this talk is making me nervous. the hmd is up right now as one option, or there's the option to use a sock to ask on the mod contact page.

yet another da

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's a bad idea. I was thinking about socking up myself to ask for some kind of reassurance but I couldn't think of what to say exactly.

[kittysocks]

Just letting you know I went ahead and posted a comment about this stuff to the mod contact page. I stuck in a note that it's okay to unscreen, but I'm going to go ahead and paste what I said here. I tried to summarize the big points, but I'm sorry if I accidentally missed anything.

"So lately there's been some concern floating around the anon comms concerning the time frame we have left in game. The idea of bringing it to you came up in a thread, so I'm going to try to do my best to sum up the concerns. Under a sock since it's not just any one player who's feeling this and I don't know the names of the others to ask them to add on support.

The issue is basically that we don't know how much time we have left IC or OOC beyond a loose idea, and that means we don't know what kind of ending we might get. People are wondering things about how far we have left to go in terms of areas to go through and general plot and puzzles to solve. It doesn't look like anybody wants a solution just handed over easy, but would it be possible to give us a rough idea of what we have left to get through, without spoiling the plot?

Following from that, players are concerned over whether we still have a chance to get the good ending. Do we have enough time left? Are we progressing fast enough? If we aren't or if a good end just isn't feasible at this point, do we have any other options for a lasting impact and IC closure? There's also OOC worry over the possibility that you as mods might burn out or lose interest before we make it to the end. Personally, I don't know where you stand on that, but I do believe you've been trying to do your best to listen to and accommodate player concerns when they come up. I appreciate it.

Mainly it looks like people want some reassurance that we're not going to get stuck with a sorry, not good enough at the end, and to get some idea of what we have left to do, since it's hard to see from where the plot stands right now.

I'm okay with this being unscreened, btw."

[kittysocks]

The mods have answered over here!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, anon. I'm pretty reassured by that though I doubt it will satisfy everyone at this point.