I found this on Reddit, any thoughts from the Warhammer heads(?)?
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I miss the days when companies stuck their heads out of this shit. I miss the days when the default was "you can make your own community, you don't need to welcome everyone, and not everyone needs to welcome you" and people were fine with that.
I miss the days where each deplorable little circle could have their own corners and be left alone. Now it's all forcibly homogenised and pushed towards putting certain groups and demographics above others. Towards centralised and sterilised arenas. It's fucking tiring that this whole thing was started by people who supposedly "wanted their own space", but as has now become widely known that they never wanted their own space, they wanted everyone's spaces.
Fuck tourists.
Inclusion is a lie. It’s all about gaining total control over your stuff, changing it to suit their preferences, and then kicking you out of the car if you complain about the destruction of the thing you loved. It’s a big power game complete with nonstop demoralizing flexes.
To bring it around to gaming, it's why I hated and still hate the shift to public servers as the default. I remember when privately owned was the default, and everyone had their own little corner. Skinheads had their shithole, leftists their own, furries their own, etc. Then it all shifted and tried to put all those groups and many more all together. There was a golden age of online gaming, rife with guilds and clans and clubs. And while there were plenty that didn't get along, you could always find a place where you would get along with others.
Those days are dead. And fuck if it isn't missed. All because stupid fucking tourists/entryists weren't happy having to find/make their own little corner. If there has been one thing that I've learned over the years, it's the explicit importance of gatekeeping, and that anyone who bitches about it is either criminally ignorant or deservedly to be put on the other side of the gate.
Blame capitalism. Games as a service are way more profitable.
No, I'll rightfully blame the fucking entryists that shifted market demands.