playing choices to avoid reality

Nicole. Cis female. This is my choices-centered side blog. my mcs

[onyx-shards]

Is the choices fandom still a thing on here? I literally just opened choices for the first time in months and played the first chapter of wake the dead. It seemed pretty good but then I realized you needed premium to play more chapters. Figures. I guess I’ll go back to hiatus for a few more months until it’s fully released lol

[justheretosaythis]

i made a comment under PB’s latest post demanding better treatment for poc and PB blocked me. i remember last year similar things happened to others and PB denied it. they did it again. i would appreciate it if you reblogged this post so it would get more visibility. thank you.

[kingliamsbitch]

@playchoices wow. just wow

literally no one is surprised by this and it says a lot…

[drethanramslay]

Did... Did the board just give back Ethan's job on silver platter after literally messing with a clinical trial which usually results in the doctors and the hospital getting blacklisted while my POC MC who had a whole ass trial and despite proving her innocence gets shit for it and gets accused by Harper for a mistake a white man made?

It's sexist as well ugh

[the-unconquered-queen]

[countessogilvy]

rb or in the tags: playchoices opinions that will get you in this situation

[onyx-shards]

Across the Void would have been an amazing series. But Pixelberry screwed it up major.

The Royal Romance series is the most overrated.

Not a fan of Desire and Decorum. It was mostly a diamond mine for me. Beautiful mcs though.

I thought Red Carpet Diaries Book 1 was great. The rest not so much.

Perfect Match Book 1 was good. The second book made me lose interest.

Queen B was just ok to me. Being a standalone would have been fine.

Distant Shores was forgettable.

I thought Big Sky Country was fun lol

[onyx-shards]

Xion, Across the Void (side game)

[onyx-shards]

The best part of Open Heart is that this is the outfit I can put my doctor character in

[zigsnose]

Queen B - Genderbend

One of the MCs in my Bloodbound edit turned out to be a dead ringer for its female counterpart, and consequently Veronica, so I figured: that’s one down, might as well take on the rest of the main gang, right?

Zachary “Zach” Wade

Porter Min-Sinclair (apparently Porter is an Old French name and means “gatekeeper”… perfect fit?)

Cody St. James

Vicente Lombardi

As usual, extras are below (and you already know male MCs are up next on the list).

Keep reading

[onyx-shards]

All of these men are beautiful 😍

[valentineramsey]

just gonna put this here 😀

—the photo was not mine, i just saw this on a choices facebook group so yea ctto

[scum-villains-viewpoint]

Back with another disappointment infused meme

[onyx-shards]

Elio Reyes, Foreign Affairs

[scum-villains-viewpoint]

is this done already???

[onyx-shards]

It’s a shame Pixeberry messed up Across the Void. It had so much potential. Plus it had some of the most beautiful characters ever created

[puff-poff]

listen I know the ending of Across the Void was...less than ideal, but god I love the character design so much. every character looks so different and there are some really cool physical characteristics that are specific to certain planets, backgrounds, or races. and the fashion!! it's so cool!! while it may not be my personal taste, it's pretty well thought out and executed. there's a clear difference between the clothes that the rich and poor wear, and the rich have this interesting Capitol-esque style that is so over the top and extra I love it so much. ATV had some cool character designs and world building that I really wish were explored more it deserved better

[tyril-simp]

[thecapturedafrique]

I still can’t get over how Pixelberry is really gonna front like their shitty writing choices have zero effect on how a book is received.

NB literally sucked ass so hard they tried to romantically rebrand it to get more players invested in their (white) main LI and failed. It was only the potential of an epilogue that made fans—and apparently PB—forget how terrible it was enough that they wanted/expected a sequel.

And you’re not gonna convince me TE didn’t have a market that they failed to attract due to, you guessed it, their investment in their default white main LI. It still remains the most extreme single-minded devotion to one character out of anything they’ve ever done. And you have to remember that when it is a weekly release, we are talking a month of solely Beckett (not counting Aster’s diamond scenes at the end of it all for reasons I think should be obvious). Doubling down on this strategy for TE2 clearly didn’t work, since it contributed to the same narrative flaws and ultimately got the series canceled.

I know they need to make money and blah blah blah, but they also need to...idk, make good content? They quite clearly seem to have an expectation that players will invest in shit *cough cough TRH* no matter how much it stinks, but nostalgia can’t carry a brand new series.

@playchoices if you want players to invest in your content, how about you try making it better? I’ll even give y’all some tips.

First off, probably need to hire some more queer writers of color so you can avoid the racist/homophobic tropes that litter your stories.

Secondly, your model of pandering to your white cishet female audience by devoting all your efforts to the white male LI from the very jump seems to pretty obviously not be a consistently successful strategy. In fact, it’s a direct contributor to my first point.

And third, take some freaking accountability. Y’all need to start questioning the decisions on your part that lead to a book’s failure/success, because it ain’t all on us and never will be.

Frankly? That’s just not how business works.

[hanchou]

not pb acting like they are some poor indie company

[atlasira]

this is why i found their “the books that are keeping the lights on” sentence so fucking funny. they were trying to make it sound like they were just a small team of young struggling college students that started this to make ends meet, when they’re actually a long standing fully fledged company with numerous professional employees.

“gotta keep the lights on” my ass. the only reason they’re focusing so much on the more profitable books rather than the actual creative ones is because of greed. like that’s it. it isn’t “to pay the bills”, it’s just to be rolling in them instead.

[yourqueenb]