Katakis LivesFinished the Venture into the [Un]known event a couple of days ago.
Idk if it disappoints me more that barely anyone is streaming it on Twitch, that the chat of those who do stream it has devs sneaking in and policing your non-spoiler speech for sounding spoiler-ish and asking people to just let them experience the thing, or that both things have evidently put a severe emphasis on the calmer side of the contrast.
What contrast? Well, the whole event is mostly promoted as just the ordeal of saving VRRat, but eight of the worlds that you can choose to get into the event have a puzzle or experience of their own that tell you how the threat is bigger than that. How their world is on the brink of collapse and how VRChat is dying and you must go and save the platform from extinction.
And sure, the four worlds you must traverse from the hub one are arguably designed to make you stop and think. They're mostly puzzle oriented, after all!
But the excitement should've come from having their slow pace contrast with the stakes at play. You're on a race against the clock, restoring the data flow, source code, security systems and API of VRChat across this quartet of worlds, then finding yourself at the core of VRChat where Patchworx's choice is to simply wrench it off the roof and wipe out all content on the platform, including worlds, avatars, assets, groups, events, accounts, etc.
That's how I took it, and that's how I took that everyone else should've been able to see it. VRChat might go kaput by the very next minute, and you need to save it for EVERYONE.
So when I finished the event and played pretend to nudge people to #SaveVRChat on these few Twitch streams, nobody was pumped. When I spoke of something as simple as "Careful! There might be more bombs ahead!" (which isn't a spoiler if you already faced your first bomb on the data flow world and you know there's gonna be more), and one of the devs replies to you with a "Maybe just let them explore the experience by themselves" instead of something like "We certainly don't know, but streamer! Take caution ahead!" and just play into the urgency of saving the entirety of VRChat, it's a buzzkill. It's unnecessary policing for someone who isn't spoiling the experience and is simply trying to remind you of the stakes ahead.
Now, maybe I was being a Miles Mackenzie with messages like that? Sure. But Mackenzie isn't exactly hurrying you up in Metroid Prime 4 because you got an unbeknownst time limit before the planet he's stranded with Samus on is going to explode.
All in all, I feel sorry for the people who contributed to the experience and played into the lore, because the calmer side of the contrast probably ended up nerfing the experience if you wanted to share about it after finishing the ordeal.
If you do decide to gossip about the Venture into the [Un]known event, just don't say anything about what might happen immediately next. Or even better, just shut up on chat. Gossip elsewhere that isn't public. Or if it is public, put a content warning for spoilers.
Then again, with the low engagement numbers the event is getting, it's probably futile to gossip about it, anyway.
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