[2021] Early access events & entities become ingame lore.

Originally posted by Carefulrogue

Matt has addressed this before: any event we instigate, cause, or participate is not going to be apart of the game lore. This all occurs after a certain transition between the lore of the world, and the actual play. They aren't going to lay a hand on any of that--it's up to folks like you, me, Presscorp, and everyone else to pitch in and make it into a history. This is our history, not the game's.

The stories of Lime, PUG, 82DK, the skirmishes on Fisherman's Row during the fall storms, the WNS bombing of Jade Cove, the destruction of Southern Saltbrook ... how in hell are the devs supposed to look at this mess of stories, banter, and perseverance, and supposed to accurately represent any of it? They can't.

And so often we've seen from other communities and games, that the devs can't do this sort of thing. From Eve Online's Fountain War to the organ, drug, and skin trade of Rimworld to the bloodstained halls of Boatmurdered, we get rich communities with histories they've created, they've documented, they've maintained, they've retold, they've remembered. I don't want the devs to meddle in this stuff. I don't want to be told what matters and what does not, because they don't get to decide just because they are the creators of the game.

The 82DK does not belong to the game, it belongs to the leaders and founders of the 82DK. PUG's legacy belongs to us who were members of it, not to Clapfoot. SIGIL belongs to it's constituent clans; FCL to it's staff; Presscorp to it's reporters; every scrap with a sketch of a hand grenade to it's author; every battle to it's participants.

EDIT: minor wording change.