Quote Originally Posted by Rampage View Post
And how long did it take you to finish the expansions? If you were lucky enough to have 5 other dependable people on your same time schedule for months that would do things EXCLUSIVELY with each other then thats awesome. For me any story progression would take tons of time even getting to the location by going through areas where anything can kill you to get to a boss that you might not beat due to 1 or 2 inexperienced players. All I am saying is I would much rather have content I can progress through at my own pace and does not punish me for not having said static. The give and take here is that content doesnt feel "epic" and if you have an organized group you will plow through it.
Its difficult to have a hardcore style with challenging content and also be a friendly game for most.
Took maybe 2-3 months from start to finish tbh I was in the same boat as you at first I could not get into the story because it required others to be able to progress through I did the promies from CoP with random players that I shouted for, while the groups never always won we still had alot of fun doing them. Eventually when playing FFXI you start to realise that you can't play the game on your own so I went looking for a LS and eventually got invited to one and they were also struggling with some of missions some were ahead of me and some were behind so I went bk to the promies again to help them out so that we could progress altogether we ended up becoming friends doing so and we all played at our own pace as we weren't hardcore players nobody was pushing anyone to finish anything. We were all noobs as well nobody was experienced enough to know everything but we stuck together and eventually finished it the journey and the experience was epic.

Regardless of how long it takes and how u did it, it still does not take away the actual story or the actual content that the story offered that is why I say its epic and many players who did finish would agree with saying it was "epic" CoP was and still is the best expansion story that SE has ever created.