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you're weird, but at least nobody will believe all those people talking about this issue or elves could be the same person, but thanks for showing me this I will contact them to hear their opinions

but everybody is making dwarf games, we have thousands and it keeps growing every single months. Why not use elves in an underground game, why not break the rules? Also i see you didnt answer my last question what would it take to make you try giving elves a chance in your games?

I and many others see a lot of games about dwarves and not much else, i dont just talk about this website but the whole indie industry. And at the same time races like elves get nothing at all, you cannot find a single elf game anywhere (and before you find me some random unfinished demo think about a game you would enjoy).

I just cannot understand why only developpers love dwarves that much and all hate elves. How come everyone is  thinking in the exact same way?

then why constantly use the exact same race? Why no have elves or even goblins? It seems all the people who make games are obsessed with dwarves with no exception.

You can probably see almost all indie games only have dwarfs and nothing else, we players are being forced to constantly play the same thing because devs are too obsessed or uncreative to make anything even remotely new or daring. Gnomes are not shoved constantly into players face so there is no gnome fatigue.

And what would it take to make you try giving elves a chance in your games?

what made you want to start a dwarf game, why do all game developpers do this? Why not try elves or anything else? I just don't get it at all is it ease, the thought that dwarves are the most popular because their fans are loud? Because the tropes tell you that you cannot use anything other than a dwarf for a building/mining game?

And no I hate dwarf fortress more so because it's one of the reasons the game industry is full of dwarven games

why wouldn't I be?

what is that supposed to mean? I'm not surprised many people probably complained about this already but why call me elf guy? I see you are obsessed with hunting down such topics for some reason, and you probably saw how many people feel this way. But why do you do all that exactly, its very unsettling...

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.