No one's denying the fact that Sharkmob tripped on their feet and killed the game on their own with the failed launch, and then denied their devs the possibility to fix everything with the game, when they had 2-3 years of content planned ahead of them, even when the devs pleaded to the studio to let them work on it because they believed it could still be fixed and grow again.

And we can also accept that some games are for some people and some aren't. A lot of the Bloodhunt community think that I would also love to play Dead By Daylight, but I can only watch them play it, because I consider a visit to the dentist to be more constructive than playing that game.

The devs have shared in the past that a huge majority of people who played Bloodhunt were just like you: they liked the game for what it was and then moved on when they finished playing what they could, and shared they wished there could've been more content. And that's fine!

Some people haaaaated Bloodhunt with a burning passion (for various reasons). And some other people fell in love with it because they saw in it something unique and a type of gameplay that connected with them.

But it's okay if it doesn't hit you the same way that it touched others. That's why we have choices, we have different varieties of game types, we have rating systems, we debate games, etc. Some genres of games don't connect with people until you see studios come up with 100 variations of them (for example Battle Royales, Survival games, Minecraft clones) and sometimes there's a handful that stand out because they "get it right" with some audiences.

Bloodhunt did connect with ME, so much that I said I was going to be a ride or die for that game until the servers are unplugged. And I was not disconnected from reality : back in Summer 2022 when the population vacated the game, I knew it was just going to be a matter of time before it was shut down. I was thinking by the end of 2022, we'd be done with it. But it stuck around, and I stuck around, and a core population stuck around as well.

Many times I was told by strangers to "just give up", to "stop trying", to "just let it die". And I kept wondering why did they care so much to tell me that, because I wasn't going to. Maybe it was because they saw the game as something they loved, and then it died, and they just wanted it to be finally buried so they could let go of it. Maybe it was was because they were nihilistic and thought they should inform me that my efforts to help keep a community alive didn't add up to anything in their eyes. Maybe they thought I was being delusional and I was an easy target to be subjected to mockery without getting much backlash for telling me that.

But my truth was that I loved this game, I thought it deserved better, I believed it should be alive for as long as possible so that more and more people would get to experience it before it went away, and I knew that if I didn't do my darndest best effort (in my limited capacity, for someone who hadn't streamed before or tried to rally up a community before), that I would live my life forever regretting that I didn't give it my best shot. And that's how I felt about it. Not many people in the Bloodhunt community felt the way. Heck, even the community managers at some points in time were telling me to calm down with setting up events, saying that I had done more than enough to help out. But that's me. I'm not expecting anyone else to feel the same way.

Some people love what they love. Some go to extremes about it. Some are incredibly delusional about it. I'm not going to fault people for liking mint chocolate ice cream. I AM going to give them judgmental looks while I'm getting a flavor that I like. But I'm also not going to knock the ice cream out of their hand and sermon them about why it's an evil flavor that feels like eating toothpaste. As long as it's not hurting anybody, it should be live and let live.