Social Survey: Why people are loosing interest to Discovery?

[Ace Razgriz]

Why are people losing interest in this game? Where do I begin honestly.

I had like, began my online life through Discovery, it was a community I thrived in for years and made many friends (which is still a friend circle I interact with daily). I still interact with people that play this game, so why did I leave?

This community in the end drove me away because of the utter and complete lack of maturity and being equatable to some deep end of /pol/. Most specifically there was a gross amount of homophobia and transphobia that honestly drove away a large amount of people that came out as queer and or trans after being in discord. For instance, I came out as trans in my time in disco, and when I initially came out to people I was referred to as a "mental health problem" and "social experiment" and that "i'm gonna be a sterile tranny". Here I am 4, almost 5 years later thriving now that I stopped caring about the input of people here.

You drive people in this community away because of backwards, toxic opinions that will never get you anywhere. Do you really want to defend that mentality? Because I can think of multiple people that would agree with me that running away from Disco was one of the better decisions they made as a queer person.

There are other things. Lacking rp and other general life instances, but sometimes I still feel a pang in my heart because this community fed a lot of my craving for writing roleplay and my own characters in a sci-fi universe. Nothing has ever come close to discovery since then in terms of how unique and fulfilling the experience of the universe was, but in the end the community is what stinks it out.

I had been through personal experiences of powergaming and having several years of roleplay retconned in discovery. My own main character based off my old self completely retconned out of a faction (who is still in charge of that faction btw!) and was **allowed** to do this because I "did something someone disagreed with". I was targeted and harassed, cast out and flat out bullied by entire groups of people because I made decisions that were outside what some people "wanted for themselves"

I'll be a broken record if I keep going, and I really doubt I'll ever make another post on this website, but if you really want to know why this community is dying: It's because discovery is the definition of turning away new ideas and allowing ideas to prosper. It's always about driving the same pvp motivated goals (think about how much can be done **outside** of shooting each other in this video game, yet you all ignore it). And it's all about "pvp meta, gank this gank that" and its just sickening. Mainline discovery is just 2016 connecticut, and thats what its going to end up as.

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