Yeah, that's me. Amazing how each update they give goes a completely different route from what I was expecting from the game since I was an insider. What was the last big monster? Meg? Unfortunately, this is how live service games goes. You make what people playing wants, ignoring all creative things you could add.
I think people are sick and tired of fighting the same skeleton boss in every single Event/Quest.
It is more like, what Rare can spare to implement. Constantly reshuffling the existing content and recoloring cosmetics is what constitutes the majority of SoT content updates.
It's basically 'get renown for doing anything in the game' which, to me, sounds really good. It doesn't tie players down to very specific type of challenge to progress the Pass. What it should do, in theory, is encourage seasoned players to do all of that shit that they don't both doing anymore because they min-max every session.
I can't remember the last time my crew did a regular ass Skeleton Fort or did a fishing trip. Because we've already maxed out all of those reputations. Which is sad, in a way, because a lot of those activities are super fun. They just got left by the wayside somewhere along the way.
It's a game about making numbers go up while you hang out and have stupid adventures with friends. A whole heap of new challenges (and i mean a whole heap) with free cosmetics attached to doing... basically anything in the game... sounds like a really good move to me.
But, lets say, you own millions of gold already, and there is nothing you are too interested in buying. All the haircuts and fashion pieces are just irrelevant. In that case, the video is a very disappointing announcement, because at this point, I am just no longer interested in cosmetics. Other games kind of manage to push New Reward Track + New Content Patch (whether it is a new card expansion, new heroes, new areas, new quests etc.), and I was anticipating this SoT announcement to have both :D
(Some Emporium shit is cool, but even if there are ancient coins on the reward track, it will be enough for like one piece of the ship set only)
And I know there is a new merchant quest, but that is somehow not really cutting it as the once every 3-6 months new playable content update.
