My 5 friends and I have collectively spent hundreds of hours since September doing nothing in this game except going to common Meg spawns and waiting for an hour, repeatedly, sometimes for 12 hour days on weekends. We do this at least a little every evening. It's not fun, it doesn't feel special, there's no excitement to it.
We have seen hundreds of megs together, but we have had 0 opportunities to fight the Shrouded Ghost. And it is quite literally the last thing I have left to accomplish in this game. After 5500 hours of me playing the game, seeing it ONCE WHEN I WAS NEW, and not killing it because I didn't know any better. Isn't that a little ridiculous?
The arbitrary spawn rate does not make it special. If you think that's how it work, just increase the rarity infinitely and see how much more special it gets. go for 1 in 700,000 why don't you. The reality is there's a Goldilocks spot between too common to be special and too rare to be worth caring about, and it is way over the latter line.
With the pain and tedium that this entails, if I even found it, there would be a brief moment of elation that would immediately vanish and be replaced by "I can't believe I spent x hours of my life sitting around rolling a 1 out of 7000 die 7000 times across 7000 hours."
This is not fun or adventurous. It is just silly. As Reggie Fils-Aimé once said, "If it's not fun, why do it?" I don't care that WoW or whatever other game have ludicrously rare white whales either. I don't care that you read Moby D|ck in your 8th grade ELA class. It's not that deep. It's a random number generator set irritatingly high, and it's making my last moments in this game miserable. To the point where I'm thinking of quitting the game early and forgetting I ever tried completionist-ing it.
Even if I finished everything in the game, I might consider coming back to it ... if I hadn't had so many moments like this grinding out 250 repetitive reaper voyages ... "complete 100 Legend of the Veils!" This is just a more extreme example of "keep people here by making number go up really high," and that's just not engaging. The PvP purists have a point, the real way to enjoy this game was to just go sailing around fighting as many people as possible and ignoring anything else. Instead I'm spending 12 hour weekends watching a tv show on one monitor while spinning my boat around in a circle over and over on the other.
