User blog comment:BloodyNightWolf/The "Claiming" Situation./@comment-34873280-20190816011740

Just gonna say this cause I was on vacation yestarday and didn't see this, I completely, to the bottom of my heart, AGREE. If I was active yestarday, I'd be the first to comment on this and Monday's page, but there's no real point since it stopped. Anyways, I've seen characters in the game, where maybe 70-90%, sometimes even 100, is full of "Claimed", or "He/she's Mine". It's so rare to even see in some pages comments about the character itself.

And this whole claiming thing, it's influencing how characters are to the fandom just by who claims them. Not even "what role they play", what they do, how they influence about a year of work on the game, no, just claiming. Who gets this, who gets her, "they're mine", "you can't have them", and bloody (mind the pun), chains of comments. Claim trains are becoming railroads, and yes, maybe I'm overstating this, but it's how I see it. The company didn't make these characters for people to argue about who gets what, it's because they play critical, main, or minor role in the game. Some characters are just to fill the "5 suspects" thing, but they aren't meant for the fandom to argue over them. We're missing the point of these characters. It would be so nice to see people actually talking about them and maybe making predictions (not leaks, don't misunderstand) on what they will do, instead of seeing:

"Claimed"

"Claimed"

"You can't claim her, he's mine"

More arguing

"Claimed"

but I can't control anyone.

While I really don't see any point, value, or sense in trying to even have romantic or loving attractions to a fictional character produced by a computer in the first place (never even claimed a character in my entire life in the entire game. Not even one.), I have nothing against it, or the people that do, and I won't treat them that differently as I would with a friend, but it's getting out of hand. And while I hate to say this, it's causing much of the major drama in this wiki. There are characters, which I'm not going to name, who I like, and still do, but have a bit of a - how do i put it - uneasy sensation with, because of the love drama going around them. And most of our emotions are really on claims of a character rather than actually what they did in the game, let's be honest. The user(s) who did claim this character, I don't mean to offend or attack you in any way, i'm just being logical.

Savannah Blake - Outside of being claimed, she only had like 2 appearances, seperated by districts. She has 4 appearances - 2 being alive, 1 being mentioned, and 1 being dead. Yet, she has much comments on her page, 214 in fact as I write this. I want to be honest, so please don't attack me for this, but this upright reaction on her death is because user(s) claimed her, and that made her death seem even more sudden. I believe, that if she had not been claimed at all, she would have been just seen as "oh, just another 2 - appearance character died". Our emotions on the character affect what the character is meant to us, since I am pretty sure that PS didn't make her to be this big of an influence by intention, or until someone people claimed her and decided to get her to kill a baby to play with these emotions.

So at the end, I'm just here to say I agree. I hope this comment doesn't offend anyone, but it's my point of view.