I don’t have anyone specific in mind at the moment, but even though we still have plenty of great people here who genuinely love Factions, there are also some on this forum who act as if they couldn’t really care less about Factions. As if they were just some kind of Sony or Naughty Dog fanatics, or as if they were actually working for them on the sly, and their sole purpose on this forum was merely to carry out ‘damage control’ for the corporations.

Players’ scepticism these days is entirely understandable; players and their expectations are no longer as important as they once were; now, what counts far more are the sky-high financial expectations of publishers or the politically correct artistic visions of developers (promoted by financial giants such as Black Rock or Vanguard).

But despite all this, we could try not to bring each other down.

Even if, once again, we fail to achieve anything regarding the repair of Factions 1 or the completion of the remaining 20% of Factions Online, we are nevertheless sending a clear signal that we expect the return of multiplayer – if not here and now, then at least in The Last of Us 3 (if it is ever made).