Originally Posted by
Sotek
That $29.99 price tag has me.... Intrigued....
Hopefully they start releasing more information now (not just teaser text on the main site please), it's going to take a lot to undo basically every expansion release in XIs history to justify that price tag.
Hopefully this plays out like WotG done properly. Most of the zones should have been there from launch along with Walk of Echoes. Lock the beastmen strongholds and both northenland zones, after we control the zone leading to the strongholds we can access them (which would at best take a week given Campaigns mechanics, more since we'd be completely ignorant of them), after we control all the strongholds we can enter Beaucedine Glacier, after we control that, Xarcabard and thus Walk of Echoes, which was the perfect launch event since they could (and did) add to it for several updates. Then they could keep updating Campaign with new mechanics/mobs/Ops, introduce ANNM/Pixie weapons/SCNMs and so on.
SoA needs to do something like that imo, the fact that you need to clear the land of boulders/roots/etc to access areas would work incredibly well with such a concept. Story missions just need to copy CoPs framework, I seem to remember them saying at the vanafest that they know what went wrong with WotG in that regard, so I'm a bit more hopeful there. Jobs, well... Hopefully they demo them on the test server soon rather than posting some worthless teaser text and a trailer akin to Cait Siths, I expect SCH level worthlessness from them for now.
Cynicism aside, I see the words "Big Bridge" on that site...
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