Posts made by PeachMcD

SO excited to win an alpha test key. Really appreciate the chance to play and learn this game in development. I'm at UTC-7 so it's around 3pm in Europe as I'm typing and not seeing a link on the webpage I can use for the code. Will log in tomorrow morning and hope that others will already be playing and posting about their experiences so I can learn from them.

Happy hunting, y'all!

just saying...

Spacing my posts out on this page, but have already had several members of this group sign up. Hoping that details about the alpha will pique interest...

gradually

I've got a Beta key and am actively recruiting/promoting hoping to win an Alpha for next round. Meanwhile, hoping to see some YouTube streams and shorter vids I can share about the upcoming test.

Esp helpful for folks I'm recruiting would be vids shorter than 3 minutes about game features that are different from the usual MMORPG. Knowledge system & grind-reduction stuff would be excellent since that's what attracted the friends I've hooked up so far.

@deusex2 LOL you give me hope!

Hoping this will bring some people in. Last post netted 2

more evidence that 'woke' does not equal 'broke'...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-caa-diversity-study-exclusive-20170622-story.html

summary for the folks too busy to click the link: Movies with diverse casts and female leads actually perform best at the box office. My o.p. was based on this premise.

Not saying women & non-binary folk won't play a game that's not taking them into account - we've been doing that for decades now - but if the idea is to make the game as attractive as possible to the most buyers, I'm having trouble understanding why suggesting non-gendered naming is so upsetting to y'all.

I'm not going to engage folks who have contempt for the whole idea and I'm not trying to change minds. I'm just dropping some facts for the devs to use as they choose.

I find it fascinating that suggesting gender-neutral language seemed provocative & unnatural to many posters, but not the idea that in-game 'racial' slurs would become normal. In a meta sense, I'm thinking that just like sci-fi, for some a game is a place to replicate our world and for others it's a place to comment on/experiment with it.

welcome aboard!

@Jetah this wasn't, if you read carefully, a demand. It was an idea. A suggestion that takes into account the actuality of gamer demographics and marketing fundamentals.

I knew there would be pushback from triggered folks who feel every change as an encroachment on their territory, but I'm not out looking for a fight OR making demands. Honest. I'm trying to be constructive, at a time when that gets politicized almost instantly.

As you say, it's the dev's game. They are building it with input from their community of players. So let them use the information available to make the most successful possible game, right?

Question: I've posted my reflink on a socmed page for my gaming crew - now I'd like to post the link to the guild I've created, but wonder whether friends who sign up via that link will count as recruits? i.e., is there a reflink 'embedded'? Or would I need to ask ppl to exit the site and then re-enter w/my reflink to get that recruiting bonus?

At the risk of starting a merdestorm, I'd like to hope that our developers know which side their bread is buttered on, and will consider adding one more goal to their list: gender-neutral language (in English at least, since that's what I'm reading/speaking here).

It's not 'just' about being what some would call 'politically-correct' and others would call 'considerate'. It's about reflecting the community that's forming here accurately.

Women and non-binary players are an ever-increasing percentage of the gamer world. We often need to be kinda thick-skinned to succeed in an arena historically dominated by testosterone, but honestly it would be ever so much more attractive to make that less necessary. Is there, for example, any real reason to have BeastMEN rather than Beastlings? Or was that name a translation from a language that requires gendered endings, that could be adjusted?

I know this is gonna trigger some d00ds out there, but I'm actually trying to make the devs MORE MONEY, so if the triggered ones can just relax and look at it from a marketing standpoint, they might end up agreeing this is the best way forward for a great game. The link below does not take non-binary players into account, but believe me I know MANY.

Hope this can generate some constructive suggestions/responses.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/232383/gender-split-of-us-computer-and-video-gamers/

@Specter oh yes! I have put a couple of 'entries' in that thread

@muker Hoping you will be safe and enable better understanding wherever you serve. Peace

@Kralith I did a LOT of swimming while playing DDO and another freeware sandbox game. I was always amazed that my pc didn't get exhausted LOL

@Luranthe I hear you BUT my experience is that no one is ever 'being political' until someone disagrees with their take. As long as no one disagrees, 'the consensus' is de facto considered NOT political. Think for a moment about how exclusive that is for people impacted by 'the consensus'. Peace to you, and Happy Canada Day!

I really appreciate the responses and encouragement. I've played some other games with active forum communities, but my take on them was that the most frequent posters were 'whales' who spent TONS on the game and felt as though that gave them the right to dictate parameters

The Foundation quests, like the Fractured game system itself, give the less 'rabid' of us a chance to enjoy this community and do well in the game. Looking forward to getting to know y'all better.

Have posted a few times to a FB page where players dejected by the demise of 'Game of Thrones - Ascent' have gathered to discuss new games they're trying out. Already have attracted enough players to make starting a GOTA Refugee guild worthwhile lol