Q:
Pact Soldiers' Interaction with the PC
Do you have any specific examples? It would be easier if we had something concrete to talk about.
For my part, I don’t remember any interactions that came across as insubordinate. A fair bit that was glib, but that only read like an attempt to keep spirits up.
Like Aaron, I can’t think of anything that’d go beyond halfhearted jesting for sake of morale, except for that one asura in his hidden jumping puzzle – but at that position, he’d hardly be able to easily identify you (and one person being insubordinate in a stressful warzone is actually rather surprisingly good).
But the lack of denoting the PC’s ranks is one of the apparent complaints ArenaNet got which led to S2’s and HoT’s overcalling us “boss” and “Commander” (even though we hardly take the role of a person in command of a military operation in HoT).
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.