I love this game. I have been playing since the testing phases and wear my Brave Vanguard title with pride.
But the "Adventures" updates have been absolutely murdering any ability for me to enjoy the game of late and a good bit of that is the FOMO aspect.
Now I am all for timed events under the right circumstances. The Halloween sea of the Damned event and things like that were awesome and I loved them, but they also had a REASONABLE time period to do them in and I could do them with my crew... and in the long run weren't super lore or story critical
But now you are moving story along and doing things regarding Flameheart and the greater story of the Sea of Thieves without any recourse for those of us who miss it. I can still go back and do all the old tall tales and Heart of Fire and such to get the story so far... but now with the "adventures" being time limited rather than started up and played like a Tall Tale, much less when I have to have other crews involved or I can't see it at all.... I'm finding my desire to pursue my Piratey career waning.
The Megalodon event was just terrible. Not only was I limited to a very short time, but I had to rely on the good grace of other players outside my crew to complete the story and see everything. The Sea Forts event before that was annoying mostly just for the three week time limit and the randomness of finding every single villager from Golden Sands. But the bigger issue with ALL of this that I have is that you are stuffing BIG bits of lore and such into very VERY short time periods.
I really do want you to tell these stories, but can we go back to Tall Tales or something? Because I don't like missing story because I'm busy with work or can't organize my crew within a 3 week period. (Or have to rely on "Community engagement" Try playing without people knowing you are devs or something and see how fun getting camped by griefers while trying to do the Meg shanty is and never getting to see the thing because you keep getting stabbed in the back by the 5th player)
I know It's possible to keep this stuff around longer than 3 weeks. I KNOW it's possible to keep lore and story around both in an isolated quest and in the live world with other players because A Pirate's Life did it wonderfully
And I Can Still Play All Those Quests I can still start up Pirate's Life Tall Tale 2 and go out to where the Pearl is sunk. Players can STILL show up and mess with me, but I can still do it to this day. I am NEVER going to see the end of adventure 3 because every time I tried I couldn't get a 5th player to do it and now it is done.
Why can't I go find Belle somewhere and replay the "oh, the sea forts are kidnapping people again, go rescue them" and still see what they say and what lore is there? Because you decided it was better to not let people experience the story? I wouldn't even care if I don't get the cosmetics. I like playing the quest and enjoying the proverbial ride.
Why can't I have a "merrick is still trying to hunt the Shrouded Ghost" and start that quest to collect Meg souls and fight the thing still?
I get wanting to do time limited cosmetics or something, sure, but FOMO on STORY????!!!
That just sucks and I hate it. And having missed some of it I dread the idea of MORE story being blocked off and it just makes me not want to bother playing.
That's all