No one logged in today because of Lost Ark

[Roflcopter]

Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

WoW started doing that in the storyline though at least starting from Warlords of Draenor. You shift from just being another run of the mill adventurer to the champion. They even give you your own garrison which is supposed to be the only one… Layered on a million others of course. It progressively becomes more focused on you as the lone champion as the expansions wear on. You are even the lone chosen champion to travel through to the Shadowlands.

[Rosenstrauch]

WoW started doing that in the storyline though at least starting from Warlords of Draenor. You shift from just being another run of the mill adventurer to the champion. They even give you your own garrison which is supposed to be the only one… Layered on a million others of course. It progressively becomes more focused on you as the lone champion as the expansions wear on. You are even the lone chosen champion to travel through to the Shadowlands.

WoW is not exactly the most story-focused MMORPG. Far from it. But by that point in WoW, the player has done more than enough to deserve recognition. I'm talking about the beginning of the game. I don't need the game to start blowing my ego just because I finished character creation, is what I'm saying.