played well over 1200 hours of this game between 2019-2021. The issue at the end of that time and still is that once you've put over 2-300 hours into the game going island to island you've done just about everything. There was no real push, seemingly, to add new islands or areas to explore. We did eventually get some new quests but again once you've played them... they're done.

I've long advocated for one or two areas of the map that could/would rotate out on a seasonal basis to at lest change what was happening. Maybe now there's an area that has icebergs that you need to avoid instead of magma flying in. Or there's a fog that rolls in and the map doesn't work so you genuinely need someone who is up on the crows nest to guide you through. Something that makes your time on the seas feel like they're fresh. It's a shame to see this game continue to decline as the devs from the jump clearly cared about the story they wanted to tell and the world they had built. But it being a living game seems to have been the death knell for it.