@rodeo elf im clambering out of your replies i have Too Many complaints. About SotO AND community reaction to..... community reaction.
Ok I hope I'm doing readmores right ^_^
Genuinely MY least favorite aspect of gw2 soto is that you aren't allowed to voice the most minute criticism of it without some 20 paragraph preface about how "i support this creative endeavor and am willing to try new things and peitha is such a queen i definitely agree with all the posts and as pre-apology for this criticism I have bought 80,000 gems so I hope it's OK to post! Well I didn't like the update much personally just for me." And no matter how gently you present ANYTHING that isn't singing praises about the expac, the gw2blr hammer comes down and suddenly every other post seems to be a vague about SIGH I GUESS WERE NOT LETTING PEOPLE JUST ENJOY A PERFECT GAME... =_= WHICH NEEDS SUPPORT.... GUESS WE'LL JUST ALL POST NEGATIVITY... HATERS ALL AROUND ME...
ok well frankly I think Tyria had way more depth than ~The World Above The Clouds~ and was incredibly fleshed out while still having so much more for us to LEARN AND FIND OUT ABOUT. how far does the world go? Do we even know where the edges of Tyria ARE? there are SO MANY unexplored chunks. And it Genuinely feels to me like some super high up exec said "shut up writers! No one cares about your dumb science fantasy game! Your stupid worldbuilding of 10+ years! The kids want dnd! Wizards! Etc! The kids are all about dnd and Baldor Gates! What we need is to throw out everything the player has ever invested any interest in within the story and make em start from SCRATCH!"
and if other players were able to take that and say "oh it's more fun to abandon over a decade of interpersonal character relationships and plot and lore! I love meeting a dozen new characters at a time whose names I won't learn and who probably don't matter as many of them will likely end up dead or just never show up again!" OK cool. Well i think it kind of sucks a whole lot.
Don't get me wrong I had fun. For the first SotO patch at least. Most of it. But the longer it's dragged out the more I just want it to be over. It really feels like anet loaded all the meat of the story, all the interesting tasty parts all on one end, at the beginning. Secret society hiding demons from THE COMMANDER? then a mysterious voice is in their head and they feel like they don't Want to tell anyone and have to keep HER secret and are overhearing tidbits of what seems to be a double cross (but against whom!) And they're still refusing to tell any of the new characters "hey I'm hearing this voice and I'm concerned" because they TRUST HER MORE THAN THE WIZARDS? and they finally realizes SHE'S a demon! Like god DAMN the peitha reveal had me! I knew it from whisper number 1 but ALBA seeing the reveal of I AM Talking To A Demon was SO JUICY.
And then the next two patches have been bite after bite of nothingburger. Sorry if you enjoyed it and that hurt your feelings a lot but this story means nothing to me because nothing is happening that even involves me. I didn't finish today's patch because I realized I Wasn't paying attention to what was going on, I was bored. Alba had like 4 lines per chapter. I feel like a prop. Or a bodyguard that Peitha doesn't really need. Like I'm BORED! ITS BORING! ITS NOT A STORY THAT GIVES ME ANYTHING! SORRY....
and in terms of my writing and developing my gw2 characters, I put way too much faith into "Well this will go somewhere!" And several of my dudes Did end up in the tower. And frankly soto has been such a bore at this point that I don't care what happens, if the ending contradicts the canon I write then I won't change mine, idc. Nayos will be unified under king peitha or what the fuck ever and auru will wake up from his demon possession coma and Alba will be full on bullied into resigning from his new job and everyone who I sent to the tower for my canon can go home. Sage asked me last night "what are your plans for Peitha with Alba and co going back to Tyria?" And I was like idk. Didn't factor that in cause it didn't matter. Shrug! Like it doesn't. Anet could blow my mind with the last patch and I'd look back and be like soooo. What was the last year of um. Nothingburger...? Where'd this come from. Who put that on my plate. Fot the past year.
I dunno I think it's kinda bad and I wish it was possible for Anyone to say yeah I'm not feeling it without people coming running to complain about All The Negativity in the fandom. Id say they should go watch Bluey or something instead if they cant handle it but I'm sure the people who watch that show will Also be too much for them to handle so I dunno. Cope?
I miss Dragon's Watch and I don't think Anet will bring them back into my character's lives in any substantial way (maybe we get to make it to the wedding! or maybe we missed it standing around witnessing this dialogue war (why the fuck didn't the character we met in the second(?) Instance attack us? Why did we only get attacked after they left by boring easy grunts? WHERES MY CERUS SLAMMING ALBA INTO THE FLOOR LIKE A TOY BY THE LEG ESQUE FIGHT? I MUST HAVE BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA!))
So frankly at this point I'm just doing it myself. If they won't give me a fun story I'll make my own. If it sucks hit da bricks and all that