Probably the biggest issue i have with Dorian is them making participation in app's community life unseparatable from gaming process itself. Unless you donate ridiculous amount of money, enough to never ever do challenges watch streams or whatever, of course.
And this is not how I am used to playing otome games. A lot of my closest novel loving mates agree that playing a dating sim is a very personal experience to them. More fandomly open people end up sharing their headcanons, writting and arts. Some of them eventually ended up with a huge audience subscribed for that particular content and even profited.
However, an experience of playing and bonding with character is still very individual and personal, and this is exactly why the fan apprentice discourse often got sharp and sensitive. Each one of them represents how different people personnaly understood and preserved the same story. And it is never 100% shared. Same old "similarities unite differences divide"
On social media it is easyer to create yourself a safe space. We can agree to disagree, we could block uncomfortable things. There is always a choice NOT to be a creator or active participant WITHOUT LOOSING ANY(!!!) POSSIBLE BENIFITS of you as a game lover and game player.
And that is what Dorian takes away from us by combining together a social media platform and gaming app. Because yes, shure, we are not obliged to post and participate. But everyone is familliar, how social media works and how they encourage users to use the most of their function.
I don't really want anything other then playing my favorite game. I don't want people watch me play, even without mic or cam, as it was suggested by Dorian. I dont wanna watch others play either. And if in addition to that I neither write or draw, or if I have no resourses to invest into game development, I'm gonna be frustratingly left behind in my gamer progress. 100%
