ESchwenke

I’ve been playing for a bit more than a year and a half. The reasons I’m still playing are for the story and for the friends I’ve made playing it. I know I could just watch YouTube videos that show the scenes, but those can’t really keep my attention; it’s much easier for me to keep track of if I play through the story myself. Unfortunately, the story progresses at a snail’s pace. Interesting events can keep me engaged while waiting for more story, but we got very little of that until this month (2nd Anniversary), and I have no idea what things will look like next month. Union Cross (multiplayer) turns out to be more of a chore. It usually rotates every two weeks, the boards can be filled in half an hour’s work, yet every week your party has to do 80 missions for the sake of 300 jewels. Coliseum is boring. They’ve recently improved the rewards and reduced the number of rounds you need to get to your max rank, but it’s still boring. There is little reason to attempt to rank well for the week, save for one week out of each month. They’ve only recently made Lux grinding actually do anything for you by increasing the level cap, but all that does is give you jewels every 50 levels, instead of unlocking avatar boards every few levels like it used to do. As such, the avatar board coins we continue to accumulate do nothing. Munny used to be necessary, and while it still is technically, we get it so much faster than we spend it. We used to worry about medal equip costs, but that barely matters. Despite this they keep giving us tons of Cid medals to reduce costs. Every quest, I inadvertently pick up materials for upgrading keyblades. These materials are useless, as all of my keyblades are past the point of needing these. I could sell them for munny, but I’ve already established that doing so would be pointless. The whole structure of gameplay is based around power creep. Nearly every new medal is objectively better than the last. Old medals that used to be top-notch are only occasionally useful for quests with restrictions on the medals that can be used. The power creep is so bad that I do not see how they can sustain this game long enough to reach a third anniversary. But I’ve made some good friends that complain about t the game with me as we wait for sporadic story updates and the occasional event that requires all of the latest medals to complete. For the record, I have spent exactly $30 on the game, which I think is fair.

I don't understand why Winter is the top vote. That is some serious wishful thinking. Winter is 1st quarter. This game is not coming out before April. There is no way. I'd be really surprised if it came out before 4th quarter.