i never said anything about not taking inspiration from other sources or re-using ideas. provided with what i said that’d be the most extreme assumption possible, why would you jump to the conclusion that i hold an opinion like that?

but you did say that people should start making their survival crafting games by using the most popular thing around (valheim) as the base and going from there (instead of, for example, looking at valheim and analysing what you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy about it, and using that research to help you make something better)

& i won’t stop liking games that i enjoy because they aren’t similar to a game that i don’t enjoy what T–T

if that pirate survival craft succeeds it won’t be because it was like valheim, and if it fails it won’t be because it wasn’t like it either. it will either succeed or fail for what it itself tries to be, and clearly it’s taking inspiration from different sources than valheim