arktara
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I agree with most of your points and the end result is the game lacks meaning. For me the most important problems that rob the game of any meaning:
- the game is buggier than ever
- the design of the game has lost any sense of coherence or logic
In a world where nothing works and nothing makes sense, how can anything matter? Ever since Age of Sorcery the designers have been steadily chipping away at everything in the game that gave the world a sense of purpose, gameplay a sense of gravity, and the effort-reward balance a sense of achievement. With AoW chapters 2 & 3 an absolutely heroic effort was made to smash every little bit of the game that remained to bits and now there’s really no point in playing anymore.