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Or when they really did imply Island sanctuary would be huge and somewhat close to personal housing and started slowly walking it back throughout the expansion until we got what we got.
Man I remember when they first introduced the concept of Island Sanctuary , me and my friend that wanted to just be retired farmers at this point were excited we get basically retirement content. They said there would be so much to do - interact and do things with your minions , mounts , have them roam everywhere!! Exploring and decorating your new island freely , you finally get your own gardening plots!! A haven to showcase and have fun with your collections more or less.

As time went on they spoke about it less , and less , and at some point it felt like it was all a collective fever dream until they released it finally , after many delays and pushbacks. To ultimately get....... a tropical reskin of Diadem with extremely rigid decorating , barely anything to do with your minions other than have them as decoration filler and outright useless materials outside of the island. You couldn't even garden with seeds from the main game , it was all new seeds that were just fodder to get the new made up grind currency. That also had basically 0 QoL at initial release by having to pick up your items 1 by 1 from the menus lmao.

And here I was , a still naive me expecting something akin to WoW Garrisons where at the very least I could have a tiny hub of materials that were relevant to all my crafting. Its ironic that they managed to make a genuinely worse and more useless version of that. Imagine how cool it would've been if you as a capped gatherer could choose 1-2 of the legendary/ephemeral nodes to respawn at a timer in your sanctuary. But alas ,nothing but another timesink until you get enough backlog to just leave it to automate itself to grind out the currency for more collectables and glamour. A pity.

Ever since then , good faith I had from years just started to dissipate more and more throughout Endwalker and now DT. The misleading promo just goes deeper and deeper as time goes and I've been on this train ride since 2015. I'm willing to gamble the new different planet exploration content thing is gonna be as boring as Starfield. Island Sanctuary 2.0. - Farmville grind across the galaxy. Please look forward to it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯