What are you trying to get at exactly? You're saying people didn't fight for Minecraft because they knew it was going to be a long and not easy fight? But if it was easy, more people would have jumped on? You and many other people argue that people understand that business decisions are the reason behind it yet you want to hide the fact that this will be a long battle because of those business decisions. Why is that? You can't argue people understand it's business reasons but then want to hide from people that it's going to be a long fight because of business reasons.
I think this is where we fundamentally disagree. You seem to think if you can hide the reality of the situation, more people are willing to jump on board to fight for it because they don't realize it's going to be a long battle. The problem is it will turn out to be a long battle and once people realize that they'll go away because they didn't get the instant gratification and results that they were expecting. I on the other hand feel that if people have proper expectations in check, they won't get disappointed and give up. We have a fundamental disagreement on the psychology of when people will actually fight for a cause. People give up when they get frustrated and things don't work out the way they think they will and then they move on. That's how Minecraft played out. People just couldn't be bothered and I think Minecraft is a perfect example of people having the wrong expectations especially when so many people argued how big Minecraft was and how that game was going to force Sony's hand.
The Minecraft movement more or less died compared to where it was a year ago. Of course some people still talk about it, but it's the extreme vocal minority and they're not even vocal anymore. For all intents and purposes, the uproar over Minecraft lasted at most, what a month? Then people moved on and it was out of sight, and out of view for the rest of the year and it made no progress in that time. If you want better progress, it just can't disappear like that.
I'm not trying to hide the reality of the situation because the reality of the situation is that we don't know how long it will take... But one things for sure. It doesn't
need to take forever.
Look, I'll put it as simple as I can. Out of these two, which would you think people will find more attractive to join in on?
Keep pushing guys, another article has been published, huzzah!
Keep pushing guys, more and more of my friends are talking about Sony's crossplay/account shenanigans so we are doing something right!
Keep pushing guys, another dev has come out in support of crossplay/account!
Keep pushing guys, Sony themselves actually made a statement that they are working on figuring something out, we are making waves!
Keep pushing guys, It might not be much longer and everything you guys are doing is actually helping. Keep doing what you can do and we will all be playing together in no time!
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Keep pushing guys, another article has been published... but it means nothing!
Keep pushing guys, more and more of my friends are talking about Sony's crossplay/account shenanigans... but it's such a small minority actually that are affected so it doesn't really mean anything.
Keep pushing guys, another dev has come out in support of crossplay/account... but Sony are king and can live without them no matter who they are so they have to play ball anyway so it doesn't matter either.
Keep pushing guys, Sony themselves actually made a statement that they are working on figuring something out... You are naïve if you think this means anything.
Keep pushing guys, It's going to take forever and even after all this time the needle hasn't moved, nothing positive has come of anything you've been doing. We aren't going to get anywhere at all if you don't give up all Sony products even though I know this is too much of an ask for the vast majority of you so I know this isn't going to happen but it's literally the only thing that my brain can comprehend is going to make any difference... Are you with me?!
