I am so mad about XIII-series (and all of the Nova Crystallis Fabula games in different ways - I have a rant post I've been meaning to write for literal years) for that, yeah. And like - I genuinely don't know if I'd be less angry if I had experienced it "organically"? I feel like that particular spoiler stripped me of the ability to engage with the game on its own terms and be angry with it (because I would have been angry) because I was invested rather than because I never got the chance to think about it without that shadow hanging over my head. But mostly I am mad because I didn't get to choose.
(I likewise had a huge plot twist for an FFXIV expansion--and there are twists and they're often very good--spoiled for me not because I went looking, but because someone shared their fic post from AO3, and someone had made character tags into synned spoilers, less than 3 weeks after a 60-hour game came out. That also angered me, though more at AO3 for "what the fuck are you doing making that reveal public in tags by synning character names" than for the writer, who hadn't realized what had happened.)
anyway just. let people choose whether or not to be spoiled, I am begging the internet to consider.
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Date: 2022-08-16 07:25 pm (UTC)(I likewise had a huge plot twist for an FFXIV expansion--and there are twists and they're often very good--spoiled for me not because I went looking, but because someone shared their fic post from AO3, and someone had made character tags into synned spoilers, less than 3 weeks after a 60-hour game came out. That also angered me, though more at AO3 for "what the fuck are you doing making that reveal public in tags by synning character names" than for the writer, who hadn't realized what had happened.)
anyway just. let people choose whether or not to be spoiled, I am begging the internet to consider.