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lmichet
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JillKatze
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i tend to call Petal Crash players "petalheads" as a play on "metalheads", but for the real high-level players i just call them "The Sickos"


Zircean
@Zircean

would you really call this face a sicko

my angelic face



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Fallen London refers to their players as “delicious friends”; they begin their community posts this way a lot, but the website also has it in a few places, such as in the UI that declares your current location. (“Welcome to Wolfstack Docks, delicious friend!”) Sometimes community members greet each other this way in social actions too, which I find charming.

I really enjoy how gacha games do this, if only because of how intentionally and blatantly deranged they are, as they're often the same title the cute girls collected in the game address you by. "Producer" of course, in Idolmaster and its derivatives. "Doctor" in Arknights. "Admiral" or "Commander" is pretty common. Relatedly is all the weird pet names that vtubers have for their audiences. I think there's a nurse that calls her viewers 'patients'.

I’d say that part of the problem with From Software games doing this, despite having strong identities for the protagonist, is that you actually do interact with other players, but they don’t serve the same mythological role that you do in-game. It’s weird to acknowledge that there are multiple Tarnished, or Bearers of the Curse (as I’d argue the Dark Souls 2 player should be called, there’s a lot of undead in that game lol), since that means noting the jerk who invaded you is on the same quest you’re on.

I’m curious to see if Bethesda picks up this habit, it wouldn’t have been surprising for them to call Fallout players Wasteland wanderers or something, even Skyrim players could be Dragonborns or Dovahkiin. There’s mythological names for each of the previous Elder Scrolls protagonists as well, such as the Nerevarine for Morrowind.

There’s also a cultural difference here, Japanese developers often have a more formal and respectful tone to their announcements, using a community nickname is almost too familiar for that? I don’t think the FFXIV team uses “Warriors of Light” anywhere outside the game for example, despite it being just as well set up as the rest of these. I do seem to recall hearing things like this in Nintendo Directs though, despite that similar tone?

I know the player characters in Don't Starve are officially called "the survivors"; I can't remember for sure if Klei's ever addressed the players as such in an update post (making them the sixth one to do so) or if it just sounds like something they'd do.

this is fascinating, thank you for this Laura!

On Risk of Rain 2, we used "Survivors" as that is what the player characters were called, pretty standard. For Homeworld, it was a bit more up in the air, "commander" was okay but not entirely canonical as the player actually takes control of "fleet command", which is also an in-universe character(s).

Of course for Borderlands and Wonderlands "Vault Hunters" and "Fatemakers" which I still love.

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