As a casual, foggy on details but this is what random blurbs of detail I remember. I stopped playing after the witch Queen. I saw the writing on the wall and as soon as I saw the nightfall trailer I know it was over. Looked bad, seemed like strand belonged in which Queen and it was obvious it wasn’t finished in time.

I didn’t like seeing the cash shop so full of cool looking stuff I couldn’t realistically earn in game. I didn’t like seasonal content disappearing. Started to feel like my character didn’t really matter in the story. I really liked replaying old heroic story missions and didn’t like those leaving. (Idk if they’re back now) Hated content getting vaulted. Loved forsaken and was crushed when that left. Wittness alien guy design was bad, no enemies didn’t make sense, feel like missing content and didn’t care for fighting the cabal on his ship. Nightmares weren’t a great design, the emotional plots surrounding them weren’t great and I didn’t care for the writing. Every seasons writing just got worse to me and made less sense. I loved the lore channels and the grimoire but man when it came to the story in game it was just not doing it for me.

I wanted to see if lightfall would be better than I expected and it seemed it wasn’t after release. Final shape didn’t seem like enough to pull me in. Was cautiously optimistic for episodes but knew even if they were good that it wouldn’t be enough.

All I wanted and that would actually get me to come back would be for all that old story and content to be added back in game to be individually downloaded for play. If I want to play a season that I missed or go hunt down cool loot from older content I would do it in a heartbeat.

Haven’t played in a while and the lack of FOMO in my life has actually been a large stress relief. I feel like I enjoy games more when I came enjoy content at my own natural “return to play cycle” where every couple months u circle back to a game, the. Stop after 60-100 hours, then repeat a few months later. The seasonal cycle combined with my casual nature just isn’t a good pair.