TL;DR - Sad and frustrated at the lack of incentive the game gives me to play at this point in my D2 history (almost 3k hours), and at the lack of desire I have to do these things.
Going to keep this pretty plebian since I see no point in being aggressively upset...
This morning I logged in to do the weekly story as I do every week, since I am in the office on reset day. I went up to speak to Riven, got the next step, read it, stared at my monitor for 2-3 minutes and turned my xbox off...
First time i've done that with a main quest step, [u]ever[/u]. I don't have an interest in doing another coil to collect things i've already collected hundreds, if not thousands of.
It makes me incredibly sad. I've got thousands of hours on this game. I love the lore, I have all the books. I love the storytelling. But I couldn't be bothered because the weekly MAIN quest step was "do the seasonal activity" again.
It's not that I don't have the time, I am just not interested enough to slosh through 15-30 mins of seasonal activities, to end up running a Riven's Lair, to get an egg where the chest should be, to go back to the helm, to run a lost sector in DC (that still doesn't have alt LZs), to get a 30 second conversation BACK in the Helm, to be left disappointed after sleepwalking/speedrunning through the actual gameplay of the weekly quest.
I figured okay well if i don't wanna do the quest step, maybe I can do something else, OH the Dawning is live! Same thing... Memento is baller. Really cool. The weapons? not-a-one. Armor is purchase only. I don't buy the event cards. What is there to chase?
So now, I haven't done the weekly quest, AND am uninterested in the seasonal event going on.
I am really sad, really frustrated, bored, pissed off, dejected, unmotivated to play; and I wish something would happen to bring that spark back. Maybe it's the fact that I have everything already, maybe it's because the content isn't great, maybe its me just being pessimistic.
I don't feel the love anymore, and it really breaks my heart.
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Kinda like the idea of a d3 next gen graphics are getting old.gun play feels good still, new enemies new characters. I want us to lose in the end of d2 everyone dies and everything lost a new dark age, begin with no traveler no powers, nomads on the run. The last city a ruined grave yard a reminder of the battle lost and death of the traveler. Could be a grey area of what it means to wield powers. Ide like to stand on the wall for a moment, looking up and seeing the shattered wreckage of the traveler in the sky. Fighting a fight we can’t win.A fight for survival as people not of gods. Until Boom portal opens Osiris steps and so begins the story. ;)