To start this off, I personally love this game. It is beautiful and quite enjoyable, despite its rough start and getting to the point where it feels stable. Sure, it needs a few patches to become better and to make it an everyday game we can all log into to just feel good. But amazon has showed they are willing to listen and will improve, lovely!
This bit tho, in regards to story, lore, motivation, good/evil etc. It needs a lot to give a cause! I’ll explain, most of the lore we are given is in a sense text dump, not to be rude but it is. Which is ok if there were more to it, cinematics, involvement, not the typical ‘i’m the chosen hero’ but just feeling as if we are apart of this world, we struggle, we aren’t the final boss or chosen one. We just live, strive like every other player in a faction for example.
Thing is, especially when it comes to wars, pvp there needs to be inclusion of us the player in our faction to the story. Motivate us to do wars! Is the simple gest, but more so cinematics to lure us in, get a overview of the lore and what is happening and will happen. And make the factions look bad/good, make us hate the opposing factions. I could take the example of horde/alliance from wow, angels/demons diablo, or just look at history with trade factions, slavery/spice trade.
What the game needs is a passion for joining the faction you do, highlight the faults of the other factions and prove that we are the better! In covenants light it should be about the divine and how syndicate recklessly do everything for science, through sacrifice, experiments, death etc. And the marauders are bloodthirsty fools ruining the land through constant war. Same goes for the others, highlight how the covenant through the divine are mistaken, prideful and unjust through their justice, or even more summons otherworldy demons believing they are from the light. How marauders cannot understand the idiocy of the other two, standing idly by as their new home is falling into ruin.
And now, make us a part of it, through cinematics, speeches, forced controlled views, bosses from the factions, make us lose important characters, make us want to fight, not just for gold, but because we despise the other faction. To do war through not just the fun of it, or it is the endgame prospect, but because we want the other faction to lose.
This goes for the story in general, we need immersion, it took to level 45 until i really got a grip of the story, i didn’t even know who certain bosses were even when they ‘challenged’ me, i didn’t even really know what my purpose was despite uniting all the factions to stop the corruption. Lore takes a bit to properly get into a game if you don’t have a base to stand on, wow, eso had that, easy peasy going forward. This is just a few thoughts to ignite the playerbase!
Make us love, make us hate and show it to us through dungeons, quests, cinematics! That’s the feedback for today.