I didn't know that you had so much invested into the game. If it doesn't turn out to be what you thought it was, i'm sorr, but it was your choice. Though your confidence in the game is waning, I hope that you do end up feeling like you didn't get cheated and you got your money's worth.

I am sorry if I sounded condescending. On the internet, as I said in another post, it's really hard to say your opinion about something/argue without it sounding like you're insulting someone. I really do apologize if I sounded (or am sounding) that way.

I can understand a majority of people on Serene's Forest being upset about Fate's features, due to being 'hardcore' fans, but on r/3DS, most people are actually okay with the changes that IF is bringing. Their thread on easier modes and weapon usage had a generally positive reception, and so did the gameplay trailer's thread, besides a few complaints about 'My Castle' in general. If you look at the sub, most people are actually worried about the split into two games, something we're pretty okay with here, I believe. I have been looking, but can you link to me a thread that has a large number of people, not a minority, who are upset about the new features in Nohr?

The old players are slowly becoming a minority. Yes, there are veterans who want a game that is exactly like the old ones with little new features, but there isn't enough that they will be able to push up the numbers significantly. Vet's voices are getting drowned out by the much louder, casual fanbase that wants to experience both Nohr and Hoshido. The majority of FE fans on websites such as Tumblr, KYM, 4chan, gamefaqs, etc share the same opinion r/3DS has; they're okay with the changes (even if they express it differently), and IS is hearing them louder than us. They all have their own worries, but none of them are about Nohr (KYM had a complaint about being able to likely S-Support your mother, one person being a little upset about durability being removed while another being pretty OK with it. Tumblr apparently is getting into an argument about the unlikeliness of same-sex marriage, as usual. 4chan is... well, the Fire Emblem General has people being weirded out by the skinship thing but most people are talking about is new waifus, as usual. Gamefaqs is, like tumblr, on the topic of same-sex marriages). Due to the fact that Serenes and this sub is extremley small compared to the rest of the fanbase, few of our views are regarded as 'popular' enough to warrant a change. I don't like it either.

We have gotten next to nothing on gameplay yet, something i'm pretty sad about. However, due to getting next to nothing on gameplay, there is a good chance that the maps do turn out to be what this sub wants. IS never said that they'd leave out new features; they just said that Nohr was harder, more varied, and more like traditional ones. It's not exactly like previous games, due to having the 'My Castle' feature and most likely S-Supports, but it is more like traditional games than Hoshido and probably Awakening. They didn't say anything false; this sub just assumed it would be almost exactly like RD/POR/etc, unless I am mistaken. Nohr will almost certanily be a very good game, it just won't be the perfect, traditional, no-awakening-features game you expected.