by icycalm » 02 Jun 2017 15:53
So I am declaring this Saturday Rust Saturday. That is to say, the only MP game that will be played on Insomnia's Discord this particular Saturday will be Rust. If this sounds heavy-handed, I nevertheless feel it's necessary to stops us from becoming like those people and groups who spend all their time playing one or two games. If we ever become like that, I will disband the clan. So, though I am by no means forcing anyone to play anything they don't want to play, I will employ all the means available to me to gently nudge the group in the direction I want it to go. We've been mostly playing PlanetSide, Siege and PUBG since we started the standing MP timeslot, and these are all straight-up shoot-shoot games, so we really do need to play something different once in a while to diversify, as much as to avoid getting bored as to attract players who prefer other types of games. We've collectively put hundreds of hours into these three games, and we also play the latter two of them on a weekly basis, so I don't think it's a huge sacrifice to take a break from them for one Saturday to try something new and different. Rust is purported to be the proper game version of Minecraft, so it sounds exciting, and it only costs ten bucks on G2A, so even if it's not that great we will have got our values for our monies out of it after an evening with it, but I am hoping it will become our new PlanetSide, because I think it can accommodate any number of players.
So, if you feel like playing something else than Rust on Saturday, by all means play that. Don't hide from Discord like some people do. I know people have moods, and you may just not be in the mood for that type of game on Saturday. Or maybe you just can't afford a new game purchase right now, or you want to wait it out and see if the rest of us like the game enough to make it a regular thing. Whatever the reason, it's all cool. All I am saying is that around once a month or so I will be picking a new game for us to try, and on that day no other MP game will be allowed on the Insomnia server to encourage people to try out new stuff.
So if at least one more person shows with Rust on Saturday, we play that. If not, I'll play something single-player.
I hope this hasn't bummed anyone out, but like I said, you can play Siege and PUBG any day of the week with people (or alone on Saturday, for that matter, or if you have that much of an itch to play them you can make a new Discord server and invite people over -- it just takes a minute), but I think that in the long run you will recognize that this is a good policy that will lead us to trying out many new games and having many cool moments and keep our sessions exciting and fresh.
If you have suggestions or objections, post them here and we'll discuss them.