Is the game dying already due to group/faction murder hobos?

[RestlssDragon]

The game dying cause like no progress
Nowadays people don't use PC to play. They would rather use their phones, tablets or joysticks. And i think that hnh would be better if it went more like afk idle game like shakes and fidget.

[DonVelD]

Oh hey bro, no, you misunderstand bro. I am lowkey proud of how I am learning to sound edgy from the excellent post. No need to white knight, bro, as I am low key keeping it 100. The gentleman has posted a cringe free response that is not at all, nor ever would be, full of "cherry picked" instances of kind and game promoting acts. Someone to aspire to IMO. I am lowkey a fan, you cringe me?

you really made sure to prove that you are, indeed, cringe

cool, guess i can trust snail

[JohnBender]

What? You mad bro? Why you mad, my best bro? I am trying to not be cringe and to low key reply to his every post with affection, like you. That does not look cringe or even desperate at all. I guess I cringed it. But don't be mad. You mad, bro?

[catgode]

(this is going to be a very loose word vomit so sorry for that in advance)

I don't have the entire thread committed to memory, so this might have been mentioned already, but none of the arguments are probably gonna change anything if the devs are happy with the game as it is. People will say 'if you want this game to be a success, then xyz', but frankly, the game still being alive and played by a 3-digit number of people after all this time is probably a massive success in and of itself. In the december devstream thingy, devs acknowledged the Steam reviews, saying they "expected more negative ones". Doesn't sound to me like they're too worried about the game's health. (speaking of, I checked the reviews again just now, and it's funny how there's multiple negative ones left by people i recognize lol)

At some point you need to accept that some things are not for everyone, and this game is one such thing. You need to be a a weirdo to enjoy it. If you're not a weirdo, you'll get shanked in a burrow by some fucko in steel, and if not, you'll quit for any other reason, the game gives plenty of these. If you are a weirdo, you will persevere long enough to find out that a properly pallid claim is virtually unassailable anyway unless you make a massive fuckup somewhere.

If spruce killsprees were magically fixed, people would still quit over very loose/nonexistent moderation in-game (this is arguably even more important than spruce slaying), very slow progress/pace, lack of direction and/or good tutorialization, so on and so on.

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I do need to admit that this is my second "real" world, and I've never been approached by a hostile ganker yet, so my perspective is biased. If you're trying to get a friend to play the game via word-of-mouth, you might want to wait for the world to become old and empty lol. That said,
1) if those nazi death parties were so prevalent, surely I'd have died by now; and
2) all my shit will be gone with the reset anyway, so my progress will turn to dust whether I'm ganked or not.

[JohnBender]

Oh my brother! You have hit the nail on the head with your anecdotes! There are no negative people in this game, only enlightened guru's who see farther into the future than you or I! No doubt in my mind, bro, that you and me will be invited into the NO CRINGE ZONE very soon. This game, as my bro above has rightly uncovered, is full of fair minded brosefs that just want a level playing field bro. Offensiveness and bullying along with stacking any decks are beneath anything that I have cringed! I cringe with you!

[MightySheep]

1) if those nazi death parties were so prevalent, surely I'd have died by now; and
2) all my shit will be gone with the reset anyway, so my progress will turn to dust whether I'm ganked or not.

at this point if a hermit getting ganked its like 90% snail

all this cry over like 3 people in total lol

but if they stopped ganking people would still cry its always been mostly forum warriors waving their fist at the air over nonexistent things, kinda like the whole botting discussion

[catgode]

1) if those nazi death parties were so prevalent, surely I'd have died by now; and
2) all my shit will be gone with the reset anyway, so my progress will turn to dust whether I'm ganked or not.

at this point if a hermit getting ganked its like 90% snail

all this cry over like 3 people in total lol

but if they stopped ganking people would still cry its always been mostly forum warriors waving their fist at the air over nonexistent things, kinda like the whole botting discussion

i do live in a snail's realm so, hypothetically, im still a target lol
and obviously the original discussion was mostly about the first month or so, late enough for tryhards to unlock heinous crimes, and early enough to still see a drizzle of people going "woo world reset". and while i'm completely uneducated on the state of the world at such a point in time, i still believe a magical solution to pvp wouldn't solve the entire problem.

what the game actually needs is a proper tutorialization/introduction to palis (this is a good idea probably) and an ingame link to dakkan's claim safety guide lol