Less content of worse quality, but much more aggressively monetized? Half the content at the same price?
Anet axed Living World, rebranded it as “Mini Expansions” and is reselling it to us at full price. Complex mount system gets sidelined in favour of A mount to rule them all. Class skills and mechanics that have existed for years and years and years without issue are suddenly a problem and get gutted, dumbed down or removed. Classes get homogenised and simplified. Very little actually new systems get created, instead the existing game gets switched around as a much easier alternative. More focus on easy and cheap to develop daily/weekly content for whatever the current’s expansion faction is.
I know that pattern.
I also know another pattern. SquareEnix. ActivisionBlizzard. NCNet.
You guys are familiar with all these Asian-themed mmo login boards, spinning wheels and so on? I’m having a bad hunch that this new rewards system will feature this in the Wizard’s Vault as a physical objects.
Oh god, I hope not. It’s like its own awful mini-game collecting rewards in those game… NCsoft is Korean and it is possible they would push ArenaNet to introduce it.