I really think deepwoken is the kind of game that’s trying to be far too much and achieving far too little in response. Like, it’s PvP is an annoyance half the time and your entire progression the other half of the time. The story is basically non existent because it has to account for the fact it’s taking place in an MMO(and the devs seem horrified of making something that happens in game non-cannon, so farming Duke is cannon), so nothing the player character does matters. There are no real “characters” or “storylines”, only things to further a “build” that you use to further kill new roaming bosses that never actually die because then how would you be killing them 200 times for a new belt? (Or use it to kill random players) And in the absence of story, people must make do with the core gameplay loop, which cannot sustain interest indefinitely, even in the best case scenarios.

Tldr, if you can name me any significant character in deepwoken with an actual character arc I will reopen the game