It is a mobile romance game with a gender neutral protag and a harem that means no one is left out. I would not want to change it, or wish it never existed. I've also made friends and gotten back into writing because of it. Obey Me has been with me through some dark times. Having been in some fandoms of dying mobile games before, when you start seeing the same names praising the game and radio silence from everyone else that's when you know that game's days are numbered. That just means players are actually straight up leaving. If anything, I'd start getting concerned if a fanbase of this size started going silent with complaints, particularly if nothing is really done about what they're complaining about. It's actually a good thing for the devs that people are that passionate about what amounts to a card collecting gacha game, because it means they may stick around longer to see implemented changes and play/spend again. If players are complaining, that means they still care." That's really the only answer you need for why people are still complaining about the game: they still care enough to want the state of the game to be improved. Whenever these sorts of topics come up, I think about what a certain producer of a certain very popular rebooted MMORPG once said about criticism from players: a complaint is worth twice a compliment. But I do think the devs should be paying attention, because their actions directly affect the health of the game. I won't try to convince you that you should read or care about what other people think about any game especially a mobile one, because that would be silly. I think a lot of people have made some good comments so far that give some better context to the criticism. This post was about some people treating opinions as objective fact, overwhelming the discourse with unconstructive arguments, and doing nothing but complain because they view things that way. If we're just calling it like we see it and not claiming our opinion is fact, that's fine.īut again this post was not about tone, or whose opinion is right, or that people can't make any complaints at all. "The tone did not change" is an opinion, just like "The tone did change" is an opinion. Asking "why make them demons?" is like asking "Why make a dating sim where the MC can be murdered?" The answer is: just because.Īnd for the record: I don't care if the game is dark or not. It's fiction, and fiction can be whatever the creators want just because. I don't "Why make them demons if it doesn't change anything?" question: it's a game. The Vampire one was the only early one people really consider dark. Other examples of Obey Me having a lighter tone earlier on than it's given credit for is that stuck-in-a-game arc in s1 and the fact that most of the early events were pretty wholesome. With s1's being a body swap train murder mystery, and s3's being time traveling to before he was physically born, when his brother's were still angels. Both were fairly serious and about Satan exploring different aspects of his identity issues, but with absurd set ups. Some kids movies even have permanent death.Īnother example of the tone not changing that much is Satan's arcs in s1 and s3. People fixate on the serious stuff that happened in s1, but drama exists in the other parts too.įor starts the conflict near the endings of each always has drama mixed in: either the MC gets temp killed, the MC's packs threaten the worlds existence, everyone has to face their greatest fears, or someone has to come to terms with a drastic change in his life.Īnd in s1's case, death being fixable and having no consequences is something that pops up in even kids movies. And the "humorous with serious moments" tone that s1 established continued in all 4 seasons. And most of these darker moments in s1 seem more like standard yandere fanservice than particularly serious or deep drama tbh.Īll this stuff in s1 set an overall romcom-like tone, or a "mix of lighter humorous tones with some serious dramatic tones" to be more precise about what I mean when I say "romcom". Only certain parts of it were darker or serious. This post was about some people treating opinions as objective fact, overwhelming the discourse with unconstructive arguments, and doing nothing but complain because they view things that way, not whether or not the tone changed.Īnd the tone change is not a fact, there's a case to be made that the tone did not change that drastically at all.Ī large part of s1 was already romcom stuff: a school exchange program, dad Jokes, self referential humor about otaku culture, the bonding with Luke and Beel, Beel teasing Mammon about his crush, the devs using in a joke instead of an actual swear implying they anticipated younger audiences, changing demons with the power of kindness, vague fade to black intimacy scenes instead of going into detail like M rated dating sims, etc.
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