I think folks are getting caught up in the semantics between lore and folklore to see what’s going on: it’s not the relation between lore and folklore itself, it’s using that relation as a convenient excuse to alter, change, and retcon stories, characters, the narrative and events as whoever is the head writer at the time sees fit. You can’t ask fans to get invested in your stories and then you change your stories on a whim for the sake of chasing another audience or the hubris of the writer. That knocks us out of the experience, and eventually your game.
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But they never asked us to get invested in the story
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Comments like these are irksome. Someone has to [b][i]explicitly[/i][/b] tell you something to be true. People can literally piss on you and you’d defend it. “They never said it was urine.”
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Comments like this are irksome. They assume things without explicit knowledge of the situation
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Do you even know what “explicit” means? And if you do, boy are you proving my 1st response right...
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Space operas don't create deep universes for people to go like 'yeah that's neat, I'm gonna just go shoot aliens.' Stories are business decisions. If you can get people hooked on a story you can get them to buy whatever media you sell them so long as it advances that story. They didn't ask us to, but they sure want us to be invested.
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But they've never attempted a story that's worth getting invested in As a matter of fact. They've told us to go play other t games and have repeatedly stated this was meant to be a casual experience
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They said that it was meant to be friendly for casuals, I won't disagree, but where the hell did they tell us to play other games? Also, there is a deeper universe to Destiny that is still a draw to a lot of the community. That's why there are still people here on the Lore forum. There wouldn't be if there wasn't something of value to a lot of people.
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Well said.