Where are my gem sales? I want gem sales! Nerf EVERYTHING!
Maybe I’m on my own with this, but it would be nice to see more personal story stuff added to the game.
The addition of a quartz node to the players home instance via activities through living story touches on a huge possibility for this game as well.
I initially was excited about the personal story aspect of the game, because it built a story behind the character I was playing. Along the way, however, a few things happened that dampened that and eventually ruined it, for me.
With my main character, I chose the “never recovered my sisters body” story for the thing my character regretted. As the clues came out in the story, I actually was drawn to completing the story lines. Driven to get that next bit of story. One of the disappointments was that the story reached its climax so quickly, and the main let down was the conclusion of it. I mean, here my main character thinks her sister is dead. She has a battle in a cave, and suddenly finds her long-lost dead sister is alive and in a prison cell in the cave my character just cleared out. Yet my characters reaction to this news is not much more than “oh hi”.
Really?!? Seriously?! She thought she was DEAD. Was the actual regret something like “I never recovered my sisters body because even though I hate her guts beyond the grave, I promised mom and dad I’d have the brat buried properly and it’s just a duty I want to get off my hands”?
There doesn’t need to be some comically dramatic everyone’s-crying-their-eyes-out kitten y reunion, but good grief, show some emotion.
With all the focus on the Living Story stuff, it would be nice to see some more personal story intertwined with that. Specific interactions with NPC’s that are unique to each player based on their personal story line, all of which can continue to make changes to their home district.
tl;dr: the personal story idea is great, but came up a bit short on delivery, but it would be nice to see more, deeper, personal story stuff developed beyond the final story missions. It doesn’t need to be epic, but it needs to be deep and intriguing.
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