So one day I engaged in a conversation with a furry in a thread that reports of Dust: Elysian Tail's imminent Steam release this April, and I was relatively jubilant about it, while remarking that it's good to have a furry-centric game that's also a good game for once, and can easily trample over games that furries have tried to develop but either fail to do so or ended up making a fucking turdsack.

He responded with a civil but elongated post about furries and their position in the games industry... and something about the post rubbed me the wrong way. To sum it up, he basically elongated what could be described as the identity and societal issues they face from other people like them who are not furries or just complete outsiders oblivious to their existence. It was then that I realized it. He was parroting the same thing said by other furries in every other gaming website communities. That led to another realization or a speculation:

"It seems like, in the games industry, furries are far more interested in maintaining their image and reputation than trying to improve their in-fandom stable of developers."

It was made all the more apparent after observing the fandom's reaction to Dust, or the sheer lack of it, when compared to something like Shark Attack, a game they cared for far more due to the inclusion of characters such as Mayhem the Shark, and a game that is so technically inferior and had a development cycle with such terrible business decisions, that the reality of this situation is about as insulting as having my mother raped state officials who admit to my face that they only got the positions just so they can treat the people they're in charge of leading like expendable objects. If it has fanservice, then they're fine with it, regardless of how broken the game is. Hell, I even had one guy DEFEND Shark Attack and telling me that it's decent. Broken and arbitrarily functioning hitboxes is not what I'd like to call "decent", you blind amoeba.

I'm very tempted to bring up this issue to the FA forums. Some honest no-bullshit answers would be very nice to hear, even if it's got a stinging aftertaste. Alas, I'm very confident they would just brush this off, and even drive me away from their precious forums, just to add salt in the wound, as if to prove that cleanliness is close to godliness, and by god, there will be deaths to maintain said cleanliness.


I'm going to bed.