I have never liked dwarves, I found them quite juvenile and boring, all the things people praise them for look like its a joke but to each their own. I am trying to ignore everything dwarf related but it seems developpers are obsessed with them to a ridiculous degree, they all want to make their own dwarven game, will re use assets, make similar characters, have the exact same themes or mechanics,... Even if their games looks like the ten other before them and have nothing new or even interesting they'll keep going. And of course since nobody will buy 25 dwarven games almost all of those game flop and don't get many sales if any.
I'm not the only one venting about this as it has become a real issue, not just being forced to play only as a race we do not like for many of us, but also how most indie games now will just use something easy or that they think is popular and go with it. No risk taken, nothing new brought to the table, just the same kind of games we had for the last 15 years now!
Years ago I thought those games not selling would show people it was time to move on and try something else, for some reason it didn't work, every game devs WANT to make games about dwarves and only them, and we the players are just drowned in all this with nothing new. This is why I rarely play games these days and many of my friends just gave up on indie gaming, they play the big AAA games and thats it because they saw the indie industry has nothing to offer.
Now while we players have to endure all that elves fans such as myself have been waiting for games about elves for years now, yet the demand that increase year by year, the myriad of things that could be done with them gamewise and their insane popularity we get nothing. I get making games about elves would be hard, it's true they would not be easy to pull off, but nobody even trying is absurd. Because whoever wants to make a game on them will find they won't have any competitors, at all.
I just wanted to rant and express my frustration over the state of indie gaming since its inception basically and as we approach 2027 nothing changed.
