The "I was there" of this game is my least favourite part of it. There is no reason why over 1000 cosmetics are PERMANENTLY time locked. Dev effort into making them, art and assets that existed for a short while just to be lost to time. Bone crusher set was in an event that celebrated the addition of skeleton ships in the SECOND MONTH of the game being out. 99% of the playerbase had not yet found this game. It bothers me immensely that 80% of that set, and many others, are in the game but missing key parts for literally no reason other than to try to force people to play the game. I was too busy to play the game in 2022-3 when adventures were added. So I'm not allowed to enjoy the story of a game because I wasn't playing it at the right time? Screw that. The fact that they haven't added Herald of the flame, Dark Deception, and Rogues Legacy genuinely annoys me. Why can we start siren song on our ship AND see briggsy as a skeleton lord but not have an explanation for how she went from a skeleton lord that we killed to a phantom who is on our side again with no skeleton curse?
"Players need to understand that the story keeps rolling even when they are not online." There are so many pieces of lore that are gone, no one gets to ever SEE again, nevermind experience. Why did Flameheart return? Any player who didn't play adventures won't know. Herald of the flame is literally the reason we have Flameheart back and why stitcher Jim is dead. Dark Deception is the reason the Burning Blade is back. Rogues Legacy is the reason Briggsy is no longer a Skeleton Lord. So players who didn't get to play for the 2 week period the event was live just have to learn through watching youtube videos instead of playing the game. They want more people to come back to the game, adding the adventures back in would help a lot. The story is VERY hard to understand at this point without watching 12 hours of someone else playing content you don't get a chance to anymore. More people would spend more time playing more of the game if there was more of the game to play. There are gameplay recordings of the removed adventures, and they all have thousands of views. Thousands of people who wanted to know what that content was, because they don't get to anymore. More people than that would have played them if they were still part of the game. Add the adventures back in to pad the play time instead of making people play the same super annoying quest over and over where they have to sail to one of 10 islands, then one of 10 other islands, which they always have to solve a riddle for just to sail for 20 minutes, fight one guy, and go to the next place in 20 minutes of sailing.
