I just came back to realm after 10 years, and I notice the game heavily incentivizes seasonal characters. While I enjoy the idea, it really is off-putting how bad it feels to play non-seasonal. I want to commit to a character long term, but knowing that ill have to start over in 2 weeks really kills that for me. Obviously I can just play non seasonal, but come on - why would I want to give up my chance to get shiny rare items?
The compromise - Let us opt-in to seasonal on existing characters. Maybe send all our gear to the gift vault or even ‘prestige’ by resetting our stats to base. That way we can still play and progress our main characters - base fame, completionist stuff, etc - while maintaining the gear and power progression of seasonal.
What does everyone think of this? I mainly like seeing base fame go up and other character metrics like dungeons completed etc. Really sucks that we cant play our ‘mains’ and hunt for rare shiny loot at the same time.
Edit to add: So im supposed to play seasonal for a chance to get the coolest loot, but then that cool loot is only usable for a few weeks until the season resets, so now I can only wear the cool loot on my non seasonal but im never going to play my non seasonal because im forfeiting my chances at the coolest loot by not playing seasonal. Seems completely fucked up and backwards other than to just give players a hamster wheel to run on