Not gonna lie, and persecute me if you must, but sometimes I wish I had less of a conscience because I feel kinda jealous of those who are able to continue to happily play IDV and enjoy their matches and the essences and the lil stuff in the game rn.
For instance, Cléo’s is dropping TONIGHT and while I’m okay with skipping that essence, it still sucks to not try my hand at it at all because it is quite a nice skin. At least Memory’s will still be there after it’s done…
But NOT Edgar’s which I’ve 90% come to peace with not ever having but it’s terribly annoying all the same.
Like, the livestream on Friday too…I should be looking forward to it. I WANT to look forward to it. I see a bunch of people excited for it but I have to actively suppress my excitement cause I still can’t bring myself to play the game.
They will announce the summer event, global anniversary, new cosmetics for collections (I dread they will announce the next ART series cosmetic knowing full well Florian is getting one. Hate this.), new crossover information, etc etc etc.
And since I’m chronically on Twitch both as a watcher and streamer, I see some friends/mutuals streaming IDV and be like “ah, I wish I could stream it but I’ll live vicariously through them for now (lol)”
And it’s not like they’re unaware of the AI situation (though idk about one). Yet, I don’t hold anything against them. It’s their choice, their decision. And I see where they’re coming from. Wish it was me. I stopped streaming for months, wanted to come back and stream IDV. Can’t. Now I’m becoming an FPS OVERWATCH Streamer (the horror).
Sorry, this was once again more of a tangent. I’ve felt particularly frustrated this last few days in general and when I thought about this whole situation again, I started reaching my boiling point.
This is the first game ever that I had to put down in order to support a boycott and frankly, it’s freaking ridiculous it even reached such a point. Embarrassing honestly.
And to those still holding strong, it’s cheesy to say but you guys are amazing. I still wouldn’t lose hope as it certainly seems as if they aren’t using GenAI like how they were before but I understand that without a statement or confirmation that you would still be reluctant to hop onto the game.
Or maybe you’ve given up? I do hope not but I understand. Really I do. The times I have wondered about picking up DBD again or even REGRETTING getting into IDV has been…enough.
But I still have hope. It’s probably delusion at this point but what else do I have?
Regardless, whether out of pettiness or the selfish refusal to deprive myself of some joy, I will still cover lore/story events like the Dreamweaver stuff currently in game. If not just for myself but for those who refuse to get on the game even if they want to read the story. So I guess look out for that post when I can get around to it.
Take care of yourself, guys. Be kind to yourself and others and, uh, stay hydrated during this time cause it’s getting stupidly hot and June only just started.
Ngl the thing about this boycott is that it's unlikely anything will actually come of it.
At least not when it comes to admitting they were wrong
And it's not that I don't want to believe that this will lead somewhere...But I came across an interesting comment on Reddit for example....with sadly I strongly have to agree with
This comment highlighted some quite important issues that make me more convinced that nothing will probably come out of the boycott at least about the fact that we won't get any
"sorry, we screwed up"
Because I am interested in BL stories, I already know from experience how much China is... Fucked up a bit when it comes to law and stuff...And it's not hard for me to believe what this person is writing about..
They really care about their image and if something is not against the law, there is very little chance that they will apologize openly because they simply do not see a need.
This person correctly pointed out the fact that technically they did not break the law after what they did it BEFORE it was forbidden by law so technically they didn't break the law....So technically they have nothing to apologize for.
I was laughing earlier that maybe they think that apologizing is a sign of weakness or something....Well, I guess I wasn't so wrong after all
Because apologizing to them would be something bad in their eyes, which is nonsense but...ugh...This country isn't the most logical one from what I've noticed when it comes to certain things
China literally goes from one extreme to the other and it's sometimes hard to follow their sense or logic....
The sad thing is that I have to agree that they will probably sooner close the NA/EU servers than admit their mistake if what is happening continues.. (Of course I hope that won't happen!)
Of course, I still want to believe that this boycott will achieve something... but it's also a bit of a tilt at windmills... China is governed by its own rules and the only thing they care about is their people, their country and their image....Everything that happens outside is insignificant... Probably until their own people won't force them to admit they're wrong...then people will not achieve what they want
Because we're not really a priority here...As bad as it sounds...We are an addition...And if we stop being "useful" in any way, they will simply stop caring about us in any way they still maybe did and eventually they just close everything because there will be no need for them to maintain the NA/EU servers at all since there is neither income nor greater activity from it
A truly shitty situation we are in tbh...
