Hook and Obama’s conversation about Tokon was interesting and needed. Obama talks about how Hook can have a positive impact on the community by bringing people together to do something dope instead of contributing to the dooming since him and many others wants the game to “boom”. Unfortunately though, everyone thinks that this “boom” is suppose to just happen and now can’t happen because of the game’s rocky start but that’s far from the truth. How a community talks about a game and share their experiences significantly impacts its reach. The Brian F vs Odom ft 100 is a clear example of that. So as a creator and even just a community member you can influence that. This was part of the reason DBFZ saw success and why SF6 exploded in Japan. The communities felt contagious and people just wanted to be apart of it. The same can happen for a game with a rocky start but for some reason we just don’t see this. Somehow we don’t see we control that narrative when we are controlling it right now. Again this isn’t to ignore the issues with the game or a lot of these games. But when are we going to get past this and start making cool shit happen because it’s clear a “savior” isn’t coming? There’s a lot that can be done with the games in front of us and we can create the motion we want but it seems like a lot of us just want it to happen instead of making it happen.