Quote Originally Posted by Altina_Orion View Post
As much as I like a good story, this is like 3 days of content for a 2 and a half year expansion. The story is good, you finish it, then what? You're paying a monthly sub. The story may get you to buy the expansion, but will it get you to stay?
The story defines the game world, and therefore the entire game. It is there 24/7, 365 days a year, 2.x years each expansion.
Without a story, you could run around as a blue sphere and shoot white spheres at huge red spheres to earn pink spheres which you take to a spheric merchant to increase your sphere's 5 base stats: Mass, Traction, Surface Type, Spin, and Core Energy.
Only the story gives a meaning to this stuff, that's why nothing is more important than the story.
At least that's the way I see it.