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  1. #1

    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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  2. #2
    Seasons don't require massive coding & design efforts, while new missions/levels do. Anything more than a Raid and 5-6 missions a year just isn't going to happen without a huge influx of players bringing more resources.

    I like the seasons, simply because they help guide my activities, and give me nice rewards. But then, I also like the time trials, which I think helps. The global events I could take or leave, I do them if I'm playing, but I don't log in just to run them.

    I do like someone else's suggestion though - instead of running CPs, Bounties, & Missions to unlock a Bounty, what if you just ran the CPs & Bounties [add more?], then the target "Invaded" a mission. It would let the Devs pop new Factions into a mission, and give you a slightly different final boss fight. Final target still ends with a slightly reworked Stronghold/Mission.
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    Even something as simple as that I think would be more fun versus what we get now, seasons are obviously made to attack our sense of FOMO/Collections and it works on a lot of folks. I'm not saying that is why everyone purchases and plays through seasons, but I think for some that's certainly the case. My biggest gripe with seasons, or rather, seasons that you pay for is that it's fleeting in such a way that you can technically pay them and then never get anything for it and then it just vanishes.

    I think seasons would be a helluva better value and more fun if they included:
    - Let us choose our seasonal rewards tracks, if we paid for a season we should be able to work that track and earn the rewards even after the season is over. Stop holding our time hostage.
    - Change up seasons, much like LateNite mentioned something as simple as the target being able to 'invade' or attack us during other missions, bounties, etc is just enough to make that same old loop exciting if only for a moment. Even if they just randomly replace a boss or something in the middle of a mission. That could really keep people guessing.
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    The Seasons are free [top track], it's just the extra reward track [that includes exclusive Cosmetics, the bottom track] that cost money!

    I wouldn't say no to your changes though
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    Oh I know, I just mean as a change for those who pay for the season specifically. Not that I'd be against everybody being able to do that, I think if anything that would be a great QoL change for a lot of players and would add value to the seasons as a whole. Even if it's just a grind track for people to earn some extra loot and cosmetics. At least it's something people can work towards.
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  6. #6
    The fact that the paid part of the season ends is just s#!tty.

    I mean, I hit level 100 pretty fast but if I hadn't, the part I paid money for should not end until I reach level 100. Even if it takes a year or more.

    The fact that the rest of the levels are for sale after the season is villainous. Vile.
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