nocturne daydreams

“my heart and your heart keep on shining every day every night”

[za-ra-h]

“I’d rather be the only dark power inside your body” — Astarion from BG3

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[lowaharts]

[evercelle]

i know we'll reunite one day, up there in the clouds

[cheseely]

⚔️.

[hinamie]

point blank

[majormayer]

[orpheuslament]

now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

[orpheuslament]

"yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story" thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code

[just-a-random-bakugo-stan]

Fanfic so good you gotta stop and scroll on social media to not get overwhelmed

[hanavbara]

kpop demon hunters as anime 🎶✨

[clingonlikeclingwrap]

Titles

[cheseely]

To the Grand Line!!!

[retiredpeach]

One day on burial mounds ~

[tofublock]

spark ✨⁣

[to00fu]

end of beginning

[chlorny]

whoooo who lives in a pineapple under the sea~~~

grab his hand and he will show you

[katboykirby]

What people think happened (for some reason):

OM Team makes the original OM game

OM Team abandons it for no reason

OM Team makes Nightbringer

OM Team abandons Nightbringer for no reason

OM Team makes third OM game

Will definitely abandon it for no reason

And all of this is done out of greed, apparently (despite the fact that constantly releasing and "abandoning" games is a terrible business move that won't actually make you any money)

What ACTUALLY happened:

OM Team makes the original OM game

Game absolutely blows up, the servers become overloaded and are unable to keep up with the volume of players

Servers become too outdated to continue using long term

OM Team makes Nightbringer, giving the OM franchise room to grow again, and using servers that aren't nearly as obsolete and overtaxed

Meanwhile, the parent company (NTT Corp) spends multiple years making atrocious business decisions and mismanaging their subsidiaries, including Solmare

NTT Corp makes extremely bullshit decision to wrap up the OM games because they no longer want to fund the development of otome games AT ALL

OM Team is forced to make a hasty and unplanned conclusion to NB's main story, leaving the OM franchise in an uncertain position going forward

OM Team doesn't want to let the OM franchise die, promises to still release new content and projects

OM Team finds other game dev studios to collaborate with, and are now making a new OM game so that the franchise can keep living

OM Team takes fan demand into serious account, and heavily priorities romance in the new game, with deeper and more intimate relationships (something the fans have been begging for)

And this is all factual. This info has been confirmed by the old mods/staff of the official OM Discord, as well as multiple data miners who were able to see firsthand how outdated and overburdened the servers actually are. NTT Corp's business moves are very public and can easily be viewed online. None of this is a secret.

I'm not saying that the games are above criticism, or that nobody is allowed to have opinions about the new game coming out. All of that is fine. But there's a huge difference between an opinion, and outright misinformation. And the OM fandom has a huge problem with uncritically believing misinformation at face value and repeating it/spreading it around - which is at both the games AND the fans' detriment overall.

[katboykirby]

The information came from Discord mods who spoke directly to the OM Team staff (who also managed the official Discord)

Several mods and staff members corroborated this info. I also was personally told the same thing the last time I met up with someone I know on the EN Obey Me team face-to-face.

[simeons-hips]

i’m no buisness expert in any sense, but looking back now i’m thinking maybe it would have been best for them to continue with the original app while making nightbringer in the background BUT continue focus on the original app throughout the hype season, and once sales noticiably dip or the story wraps up, start wrapping up the story and once the story is complete THEN move onto nightbringer while doing what nintendo did for animal crossing pocket camp for the og obm app.

im sure the obey me team knows what they’re doing but if nothing changes with NTT this app is just gonna be another bust… possibly irredeemable this time.

[katboykirby]

They've already confirmed that there will be a lot of big changes with the new game coming out, and that they prioritised listening to fans' demands to improve the OM experience.

Primarily, the OM Team has already stated that the new App will have a much bigger focus on romance, leaning heavily into the development of deeper and more intimate relationships with the demon brothers (with the other characters being added in future updates)

They've also confirmed that the new game will allow players to pursue just one character at a time and build a more significant relationship with him, instead of it being the open free-for-all it was in the previous games.

This is good news, because people have been BEGGING for more romance and intimacy from OM for years now. And considering how we've had several player feedback surveys over the last year asking fans what they want to see from the franchise, it's reassuring to see that the team has listened to what everyone had to say and they're taking that feedback on board.