I just want to say that, even if I don't necessarily agree with everything in your post, I appreciate that you've brought some of these issues to light Polk. I was debating on writing a big reply post myself venting all the frustrations I've had with the game ever since after Early Korvara, but then I realized I don't really have the energy for it anymore.
But the game is not fun anymore. At least, to me. Early Korvara was a huge blast for me though.
Leader lottery was in all honesty a huge mistake, but at the same time it got Dev to play the game with us and I feel like some things would've never happened if he didn't otherwise, so at least there's some bright side in what happened with the lottery.
There's something I want to add in regards to the 'I didn't have energy for writing a big reply post' though. Usually, when there's big problems like these, I end up making some post about it or some big mention of it somewhere (like the 'opinions of the state of SL2' thread a while back), but this time around I never really felt the energy to do it, or the motivation and I thought that was a pretty bad sign for me. It feels like it's to the point where my motivation is mostly gone. When I work several hours in a row, and then have free time, I find myself putting SL2 last in the list of priorities because in the back of my head I know I'm not really going to enjoy it much.
Communities are very difficult to change but I hope that eventually there's something that helps make things more fun and less like a dark atmosphere, as difficult as that may be. I don't really want to quit.
But the game is not fun anymore. At least, to me. Early Korvara was a huge blast for me though.
Leader lottery was in all honesty a huge mistake, but at the same time it got Dev to play the game with us and I feel like some things would've never happened if he didn't otherwise, so at least there's some bright side in what happened with the lottery.
There's something I want to add in regards to the 'I didn't have energy for writing a big reply post' though. Usually, when there's big problems like these, I end up making some post about it or some big mention of it somewhere (like the 'opinions of the state of SL2' thread a while back), but this time around I never really felt the energy to do it, or the motivation and I thought that was a pretty bad sign for me. It feels like it's to the point where my motivation is mostly gone. When I work several hours in a row, and then have free time, I find myself putting SL2 last in the list of priorities because in the back of my head I know I'm not really going to enjoy it much.
Communities are very difficult to change but I hope that eventually there's something that helps make things more fun and less like a dark atmosphere, as difficult as that may be. I don't really want to quit.