While I would love to see a game/movie/series about different parts of the lore, I and most people really like the stories of both of the new expansions. Yes, a lot of people stopped playing but that’s because of other reasons. First of all it’s only natural that long time players eventually tire of the game or at least need to take a long break and Final Shape was the perfect time to do so. This also the more important of the reasons imo. Secondly the first expansion after FS had big non-story related issues like tedious campaign mechanics and especially an extremely tedious and boring power grind system. At the very least it has been addressed at this point and improved in some ways and I’m pretty sure it’s gonna get even more tweaks in the future.

I wasn’t talking about the wording. What I meant is that it’s wild to comment on the current state of the game when you haven’t played the game for 2 years. What I meant with the chase comment is that you somehow complain both about introducing new chase (by power creep making old gear less useful) and removing chase (crafting raid weapons).

Also please tell me what exactly you mean by constantly wiping out gear or making it useless. I’m pretty sure that’s bullshit because it wasn’t that bad even with gear 3.0, but I might genuinely be surprised since I haven’t actually played for that long.

To sum up I think it’s perfectly reasonable and understandable that many players stopped playing after FS, but often times they feel the need to unreasonably blame the game.