Disappointed - Season 4
I've grown to loath seasons and the gameplay loop that they offer us. It's non-content, minus a boss fight that at this point plays like just about every boss fight in the game with few special mechanics, or even new set pieces for us to fight them in. Seasons are a great way to keep us playing with reward tracks, but besides doing stuff we've already done there isn't much in the way of anything new. I would rather they skip seasons entirely and focus on spending that time on creating true mini-expansions or new locales for us to visit and to shoot up.
Seasons also have the potential to be underwhelming in value, by a massive margin if something goes wrong in your life or if something suddenly happens. When season 1 launched, it was fine. I played through it and got to around rank 65-70. That was enough for me, I didn't feel cheated or unaccomplished because I didn't have to pay for the season. So I just had a rewards track to follow and got some neat stuff, a new outfit, whatever. When season 2 came out, I went ahead and purchased it and played a little bit, but as a result of my cancer diagnoses last year and surgery, I ended up having to deal with numerous checkups and doctors visits, oncology appointments, etc. I wasn't able to play, but I still managed to get to rank 11-13, overall not far given that there are 100 tiers. So by the time I had more time I logged back into the game and was willing to grind, but season 3 was just starting. So it was more or less a waste of $10. Season 2, or the content/rewards track that I felt like I had paid for was gone and that was it. I gave them 10 bucks for the privelge of grinding for about an hour or so.
If seasons aren't going to provide us with more content or new content, I'd be fine with that, if when we bought the season it was actually 'ours'. As in I could select that seasonal track and earn rewards from it after it had passed so that I can earn those rewards on my own time. The little events with changes to the gameplay/buffs are fun, but ultimately it's still not what I'd consider "new". I get that seasons are the new way forward, but the value of a season means wildly different things for different people. Someone who can afford to grind and play the game on a regular basis or all day is going to see a massive return, where as someone who just isn't willing to do that, or in my case is willing to do enough to where they feel like they aren't getting jipped, but then something happens and I get jipped anyways... That really soured me on it and I haven't purchased a season after that.
So seeing that Season 4 is going to be dealing with a character and one of the factions I enjoyed most through the story versus an actual mini-expansion, or raid, or even a full fledged expansion sucks.
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