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Holy ccrap Square Enix Members actually sent me my loyalty package! I'd been half-heartedly looking at the dorm package board every day for the last two months but wasn't really expecting anything. Basically if you've purchased enough games to be the lowest rung on their tier of membership (this year that's just one game) you could fill out a form on the SE Members site for free promotional stuff they had left over from events, and they just hell of mail it to you. I got two Dissidia glossy postcards, a Dissidia fan, and a quality E3 brochure. I know they're just doing it to get rid of their surplus crap but as a squore I appreciate it. "mailing you free stuff with pictures of cloud on it" is the key to my heart, and a choke chain that keeps me close and trusting
semi-separate topic ~nerdrage time~
This is not a new complaint but i'm bored at work and feel like violently typing about it again anyway. really, are there ever people who are fans of movies they haven't seen, TV shows they don't watch, books they haven't read? why is it acceptable to bypass the playing of a game and skip right onto the "being a fan of it" part? it's passive vs active entertainment. firsthand experience is obviously best, but I'd be a hypocrite if I said secondhand experience wasn't also an acceptable avenue to developing an appreciation for a game. That is, of course, watching someone else play it, but you have to really watch the whole thing, not just the story-- the gameplay.
There's more to any game than youtube clips, Let's Plays, and wikipedia descriptions of their stories. You have to get a feel for how a character moves, how menus work, the feeling of trying out a new weapon. But the real key is time-- the time spent WITH that game. The build-up. the amount of time taken to get to a plot twist, or the trials leading up to a boss, learning his strategy, and then the thrill of actually beating that boss. Like a story in any media format, you can't just skip to the climaxes. It's supposed to be an accomplishment to move on to the next world or to witness a sweet-ass FMV. Success in a game is something you earn, even if you're not the one doing the controlling, if you're experiencing it in real-time in some way, you're earning what comes next. There's anticipation there, and it makes the game events that much more potent.
So, why are there so many people who participate in fandoms for games they haven't played? And why does no one call them on it, or get accused of being elitist if they do? This isn't to say you can't read about a game you've never played out of curiosity, but don't call yourself a fan of it, don't motherfucking write FANFIC for it. If you told everyone you loved the FUCK out of Star Wars and had written tons and tons of fanfiction for it, but had to keep asking people questions because you'd never actually seen it, Star Wars fans would tell you to get the fuck out. I assume. I don't know. but i'm sick of this aspect of video game fandom. It's always girls, too. fucking girls. play the fucking games or go back to watching anime where you don't actually have to do anything.
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