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I can see an argument against judging a final product too harshly from its early access content, but not that the DarknessInducedAudienceApathy trope doesn\'t apply. I have too many people in my social circle who went from cautiously optimistic to wanting nothing to do with the title entirely on the basis of the early access being a miserably joyless slog with a hateful party full of unlikable assholes, which drearily strings the player along through a series of horrible atrocities they have little power over when it\'s not railroading them into doing terrible stuff themself \
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I can see an argument against judging a final product too harshly from its early access content, but not that the DarknessInducedAudienceApathy trope doesn\\\'t apply. I have too many people in my social circle who went from cautiously optimistic to wanting nothing to do with the title entirely on the basis of the early access being a miserably joyless slog with a hateful party full of unlikable assholes, which drearily strings the player along through a series of horrible atrocities they have little power over when it\\\'s not railroading them into doing terrible stuff themself \\\"to survive.\\\" A few jokes won\\\'t change that.
An extremely cursory examination of the Internet conversation surrounding the title following its early access release finds that it\\\'s far from an uncommon opinion, and I feel that what would in any other context be a textbook example of the trope deserves to be set forward as such, if with moderating language regarding its being an early access release.
An extremely cursory examination of the Internet conversation surrounding the title following its early access release finds that it\\\'s far from an uncommon opinion, and I feel that what would in any other context be a textbook example of the trope deserves to be set forward as such, if with moderating language regarding its being an early access release.
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I can see an argument against judging a final product too harshly from its early access content, but not that the trope doesn\'t apply. I have too many people in my social circle who went from cautiously optimistic to wanting nothing to do with the title entirely on the basis of the early access being a miserably joyless slog with a hateful party full of unlikable assholes, which drearily strings the player along through a series of horrible atrocities they have little power over when it\'s not railroading them into doing terrible stuff themself \
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I can see an argument against judging a final product too harshly from its early access content, but not that the DarknessInducedAudienceApathy trope doesn\\\'t apply. I have too many people in my social circle who went from cautiously optimistic to wanting nothing to do with the title entirely on the basis of the early access being a miserably joyless slog with a hateful party full of unlikable assholes, which drearily strings the player along through a series of horrible atrocities they have little power over when it\\\'s not railroading them into doing terrible stuff themself \\\"to survive.\\\"
An extremely cursory examination of the Internet conversation surrounding the title following its early access release finds that it\\\'s far from an uncommon opinion, and I feel that what would in any other context be a textbook example of the trope deserves to be set forward as such, if with moderating language regarding its being an early access release.
An extremely cursory examination of the Internet conversation surrounding the title following its early access release finds that it\\\'s far from an uncommon opinion, and I feel that what would in any other context be a textbook example of the trope deserves to be set forward as such, if with moderating language regarding its being an early access release.
