WazawaiDa
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- May 8, 2023
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Kind of have to agree with this. I think this is one of the game's biggest weaknesses, there's so much that's been left as WIP for years now and there's never really an indication of where the development will be focused on next, so a subplot you might be interested in will just be stuck in limbo forever, losing any kind of steam or enthusiasm it had behind it. I am sympathetic to the dev team because there's been quite a lot of bumps along the way (artists quitting and changing, writing blocs and personal issues), but there's definitely got to be a more organised way to deal with the dozens of plot threads.It's really weird how there's all these questlines they could be expanding instead, including finalizing Black Wolf (which is damn near complete, I'll point out) and expanding the Blessing of Lust, and they just immediately swerve into a new completely unrelated story arc focusing on desert crocs...based on a single encounter in the Black Wolf storyline that was more for the sake of comedy than anything else. Instead of just, y'know, waiting until Black Wolf was done before doing something new and combining it with the current ongoing story arcs rather than just making every update one thing or the other.
That's the big issue with these games - too damn often the devs just get obsessed with putting in as many ideas as they can or they get sick of working on one thing so they start adding in other stuff they feel more 'inspired' by, and before you know it the game is just filled with dozens of quietly dropped storylines and unresolved quests. Shit is genuinely maddening.
Like off the top of my head, aside from the biggest storylines like the Orc war and the Northcrest conspiracy, there's the Mythshore story (what exactly happened with the lord family there, what happened to the two survivors after they've left the town), the panda-hog-bear island stories (Sabal's area got some attention recently, but the guild story and the crossover event are still WIP, and outside of Hugo none of the characters have any scenes or development), the junkyard ruins with Tao, the Yeti and the ruined mounain village, the Hissh/Grushk story, the Emmerine Golem/Father story with Ruben, not to mention the many guest characters, which I realise is mostly out of Hyao's hands, but the majority of them haven't got any new scenes for several years.
All that being said, I still enjoy the game and I am hopeful about its direction, and whenever Hyao does get around to writing a larger update it's more often a hit than a miss. But I'll admit I am getting progressively crankier recently because we've been getting what feels like mostly just Maul content for like a year now, especially when making up for a shorter main update, and I hate basically everything about this character.