Because anyone should have realized that there can't be just 6 weapons.
This isn't even higher level thinking shit.
I can't speak for everyone, but personally I didn't think it would be 6 weapons only, especially because I had no idea how long the game was, all I knew was that they found 6 weapons in 40 hours, enemies didn't drop weapons and we already had confirmation of lower weapon count because of the more unique weapons.
It's not that big of a leap to assume we'd have even less weapons than I was expecting.
I was actually just directly comparing 40 hours of Bloodborne to my first 40 hours of Dark Souls, which was roughly half of my first playthrough.
Now I know that not only the estimated time is around 45 hours, but also that people have finished the game with 14 weapons on their first blind playthrough, without having any wikis or forums to consult, so there are certainly hidden/covenant weapons in the game, and we might also have boss weapons, so it's all fine, and the Edge guys were just pretty bad at getting new weapons.
But when you think about it, even 14 hours for the whole game (so, comparatively, 7 for half the game instead of 6 for what I thought was half the game) isn't really that much.
If I was just concern trolling why wouldn't I jump to the 45 hour thing then? That's because I'm not concern trolling and I don't care how long the game is, since it's a highly replayable kind of game, as long as we have varied areas, I'm not concerned about the duration at all.
I even defended the series' duration when someone said in the other thread "if you beat Demon's in less than 40 hours on your first playthrough, congratulations", for which I (and many more) replied to with "thanks".
I don't remember Dark Souls 2 downgrade talk getting shut down. We had a huge thread on it. It was pretty well documented.
And weapon concerns and loading time concerns are two very different things.
It wasn't shut down exactly because we had dedicated threads on it. Actually, even on those threads there were a few people going in just to shit on the concerns, saying like "I DON'T PLAY GRAPHICS, WHY DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT THE GAME INSTEAD?" or some stupidity like that. I'm sure you'll remember.
The annoyance and jokes come from the fact that people read one thing in the OP and then without checking the thread, posted "6 weapons?!?!"
It happened over and over and over again for many, many pages on the impressions thread. There was a dozen other things to talk about but instead there was constant drive-by posting about that one piece of info that as it turns out was very wrong to begin with. and as such, people who were actually reading the thread ended up having to reply multiple times pointing out how silly it is to think there are 6 weapons when we've seen at least 8 already in promo stuff.
That's why it's turned into a joke now.
That is indeed more reasonable, as drive by posts from people who didn't read the thread are far more common than they should be, on every subject. I'm convinced.
