But we are making the decision together. Look at all the conversations we're having. Your confusing "not having a choice" with "learning to except majority opinion"
Trust me, the people in charge of the instances aren't defederating because of their personal opinion. They are listening to us and making choices on what the majority feels.
People who keep touting the point that defederating from Meta means we are cutting people off from fediverse are picturing this situation wrong. Based on what I've read, people see this little island of people compared to the mainland where there will be physical barrier because shouldnt tear down the bridge.
But the net isnt like that. People have just as much freedom creating a Threads account as they do a Lemmy or Mastodon account.
And don't say that the fediverse is too difficult to understand for the average person. That kind of rhetoric is what will push people away.
Everyone needs to be patient with growth. It's not going to happen in a year just like it took years for reddit to grow. I do believe that more and more people will be interested in the fediverse once they realize that corporate oversight is non existent here. And that can only happen if we keep the major instances disconnected from Meta or any for profit company.
It's really interesting to see the two sides of the coin. People are extremely passionate on both sides. I didn't think people on the side of "in favor of federating with Threads" were just as passionate.
Someone out there has been collecting the best keygens with songs and they don't even know it. And now their job is to release a compilation album on bandcamp or something.
Im going to preface with saying that I think TotK is a good game. I put over 100 hours into and really enjoyed my time with it. I likely will not return to it, or BotW, but that's just me. Mainly because there are too many other great games in the world to spend my limited time on this planet with.
But even thought I like it, I can be critical of it. Maybe because its everybody's new baby and no one wants to criticize a cute helpless baby. But once that baby has aged into a teenager, then the criticizing can come out. What Im saying is I get peoples reluctance to criticize Totk so soon and i bet as it ages, people will have more to say. So being critical isn't a bad thing even this early on. Its not the perfect game and the Zelda team can definitely improve in future iterations. If anything I still see TotK a stepping stone to something bigger down the line.
Id say that wall is a pretty soft wall though. And to Arlos point, the building mechanic allows you to cheese through a lot of it.
If Arlo wanted people to be less salty about his video, he should have not made that dumb thumbnail. I get its for the clicks and the youtube alg. Hes not even saying either one is better than the other in the video. If anything hes saying the Zelda team should find a balance.
SS was primarily linear and Breath/Tear was were primary open ended. Finding a middle ground is definitely doable and that's all that Arlo is saying.
Nah Arlo has always been known to just say what's in his mind and not deliberately stirring up controversy. This is how he genuinely feels. He's also shown to very knowledgeable about game design.
Also not sure how you missed it but a lot of fans have shown dissatisfaction about this current formula. Arlo is just adding to the already current situation.
Your statement about branches is only a small piece of the puzzle. Branching across the new Zelda formula has left intricate puzzles behind. Yes all Zelda have this branching you speak of but now those branches are unlocked with Legos instead of rubics cubes.
There's no reason we can't have both toys in the same game and that's what people want.
Personally I think Aonuma talks big cuz it his personality. He's been talking like this for years. But he listens. I wouldn't be surprised if he brings tighter dungeons and puzzles back.