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greetings-humans · 7 months

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this has already been said a million times but ig some people never got the memo so here I am.

when a fic updates and it's been a while (be that a month, a semester, a year, multiple years, a fucking decade or maybe several of those) YOU DON'T SUDDENLY GET A FREE PASS TO BE AN ASSHOLE TO THE AUTHOR

some things for your consideration:

the fic author is not paid for this creative effort and also needs to spend time actually supporting themselves financial

the fic author is not a robot that cranks out creative material. breaks are needed, sometimes people leave fandoms and come back much later. it is human and it is natural. some people can't completely obsess over one single fic consistently and also write stuff for it, and thus cannot consistently give you chapters. sometimes, "consistently" also means not as soon as you'd like. please find your brain from the lost and found and realize that if someone is updating and has not abandoned their fic, that is an absolute win and definitely not a given

the fic author is a human being that just so might wanna engage in hobbies and relationships (platonic and/or romantic), which takes time

you should keep in mind that it takes a lot of fucking brainpower to have an idea, like the idea, decide to write the idea, find the time to write the idea, find the inspiration to continue said idea, ACTUALLY FUCKING WRITE THE IDEA, and find it in yourself to publish it

you are entitled to nothing. actually, since I'm a nice, empathetic person, I'll ammend that. the only thing you might be entitled to is an edit at the tags saying 'fyi next chapter is gonna take a while'. you deserve no explanation. I deserve no explanation. if the author comes back after years to update I will go to the comments and tell them how surprised and happy I am and then talk about the fic. be a bit more like that please

if you don't like the updating frequency, consider DOING IT YOUR FUCKING SELF (and talking about it with the fic author if you got inspired by said fic, and definitely giving credit).

if you don't like the updating frequency, consider NOT READING OR COMMENTING ON THE FIC or just maybe READING A DIFFERENT FIC (don't like don't read is always in effect babes, this is fanfiction, if i started saying shit under every fic with a premise that made me grimace I'd have made so many people and myself so upset)

this is not one of those cases where you can make it other people's problem. the author has every right to take as much time as they fucking want. I don't see you writing this exact fic in their exact circumstances, so kindly shut up

okay, for real, though. you can't know. the author could be going through anything, including but not limited to childbirth, divorce, grief, mental health issues, physical health issues, schoolwork (not everyone is an academic genius samantha, let people take their time), friendship/romance drama. they could also, fyi, just wanna take a break. nothing wrong with that. it's actually the recommended course of action to avoid burnout in case you hadn't heard. literally who do you think you are to take an issue with that? their fucking publisher? do you have a deadline to meet harold? is your pay based on this? what was that? no? okay cool then shut it.

how fucking dare you complain about how fast a literal human being with an entire life outside of fanfiction can write literally so many words about something new.

btw this is what inspired all of this

one of my favorite fics updated after... well three months maybe? and I spot this in the comment section as I go to drop my own comment. literally how dare you. do you understand how discouraging and infuriating it is to see some random person say this about your brainchild?? im glad you're liking the fic berryl but if you have an issue with the time between updates, keep it to yourself, read another fic, or write your own fic.

#ao3 #ao3 etiquette #fanfiction #fanfic #fic #fan fiction #fic etiquette #fandom #deelay words #(i have a lot of those on this subject as you can see)#rant post #ranting #long post

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perenlop · 3 years

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would you be open to posting your critique on swsh? im curious :0

sure! i'll go proper capitalization and punctuation mode just to make it more comprehensible. also i ramble so here's a readmore

To get to the point, SWSH is in my bottom three Pokemon games and if I didn't have a generational challenge run through all the Pokemon gens going on, I'd probably never start another file on it and let it collect dust like Ultra Moon.

I'd talk about what I liked and didn't like in full but idk if you want that exactly? And also this is gonna be long as hell anyways and I don't wanna fuel any "Wow you made this THIS long?? You care too much!!" thoughts. So I'm just gonna jump straight into what I think is definitely the main problem behind the scenes.

So. NatDex.

I'm just going to say that honestly? Cutting out the National Dex was a long time coming. We're up to over 800 Pokemon now, with their shinies and gender differences, all these different forms, and what, only 200 are gonna be used in a gen at a time? With everything else needed to be ported into the game? Yeah no, they had to pull the plug on that eventually. And honestly, I don't mind. I'm the type to replay old games constantly, so if I want Gliscor on my team, then I can just go boot up a Sinnoh game. Sure, I'll be sad if Gliscor continuously doesn't make the cut in future games, maybe even mad, but it's not the end of the world.

That's not to say there are no issues with how it was handled, the PR for it was awful. Saying it was for the sake of animation was a gigantamax mistake.

But here's what I absolutely hate when people put their two cents in. "Gamefreak fucked it up! Gamefreak was lazy! Gamefreak intentionally bastardized the game by taking out the National Dex because they don't care!"

Like... I'm not saying Gamefreak are completely innocent in every tedious thing about Pokemon, there's that disaster with the ORAS battle frontier, which iirc was totally them. But... think about it for more than two seconds.

Pokemon has had a yearly mainseries release for over a decade now, with one break for Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon, developed by Spike Chunsoft, to take the holiday release in 2015, and if you count the DLC being the unofficial "third version", then 2021 is the first time Gamefreak isn't releasing a new game, and that's debatable since Legends is coming out in Janurary 2022. While games with similar popularity like Mario and Zelda have years between their games, usually with spinoffs to keep people entertained. So basically, Gamefreak has been working nonstop on Pokemon, with the pressure of releasing an entire game in a year, with not many breaks I assume. And there are multiple reports of burnout and crunch time in order to get these games out, because god forbid we let an actual spinoff come out for people to take a breather on.

If anything, the problem is with TPCI, not Gamefreak. TPCI, which has everything on a tight schedule, and who has more money than DISNEY apparently, yet they still need to wring as much money out of people as possible, as soon as possible, and they clearly don't care about what it takes to get to that point.

So with all of that? I think it's insanely tone deaf to go "Gamefreak intentionally ruined my game because they're lazy bitches who can't be bothered". Because this is clearly the ultimate result of all the burnout.

Of course the game looks half finished in some areas. Of course the animations are mostly carried over and just touched up on. Of course they couldn't do a whole lot. Of course there was no National Dex. With that development time and crunch, they need to cut a TON of corners. All that stuff in the beta wasn't dropped because Gamefreak yawned and shoved it aside, it was because they literally could not feasibly put it all in and make it work as a fully functional game in time. This is the culmination of the past decade's burnout, and this is what I would expect from most Pokemon games from now on if this keeps up.

So yeah, I hate most Natdexxer takes on the game because they're incredibly tone deaf. But then I also hate when people smugly go "Well, SWSH sold MORE than most Pokemon games, so ACTUALLY it's sooooo much better than you think and it has no problems whatsoever, and pointing out any problems with it is an evil and awful thing you should hate yourself for :)" Like... first of all, ya don't think that maybe has something to do with the Game being worth $60-90 on a TV console as opposed to $40 on the 3ds? And second... it feels so dismissive of the actual problem. It almost feels like instead of "ugh gamefreak is so lazy", it's "um, there's nothing wrong with how SWSH was made and there's no problem with the yearly releases! They're all the same quality and there's nothing wrong behind the scenes whatsoever, silly!" And while yeah, there's not much WE can do about anything, I'm not trying to sound holier than thou or that you shouldnt buy the games for your kids or yourself or anything... it's just that it's not good to act like there's no issues either. Unfortunately, those seem to be the two opposing sides for the large part, and it's exhausting because the main problem is unaddressed.

tldr: i hate people calling gamefreak lazy and harassing them over it, or acting like people criticizing the game are evil and daring to pick apart perfection, when the game is Like That because of crunch time and poor work environments

#long post #mail #pkmn #bowserswife #if you want like. what i liked and didnt like like a proper critique then i can do that klfdsfjldskf idk

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