Scarily enough it seems like I'm crossing more and more people (mostly on reddit, but occasionally even on Steam) willing to defend or even praise the chain system.
It reminds me when years ago I went to watch an Emilio Salgado gallery and I read one of his comments about how one of the most unsettling traits he noticed traveling across the world was the "ability" for people in dire situations to get used (to the point of indifference) to any form of hardship, pain and abuse.
Let's be real, the way this EA has been run has basically distilled the playerbase to a trickle of players who outright worship the game as is. Even the dataminers have seemingly lost interest, or at least don't consider the game enough of a priority to publish their findings earlier than a month after release.
Everyone else is waiting for something far more substantial to jump back in, something that would dramatically change everyone's playthroughs instead of a specific faction of players (as in, this patch is only really interesting to people who have any interest in playing a Barbarian). Something like reactions, level 5, or a new companion. It's been a year and a half at this point, why do we not at least have one new companion introduced after all this time? Especially when considering there are probably people out there who want to try out the new classes through the companions but would never consider touching said classes for their main character? It kind of worries me that the absent companions may end up being an afterthought compared to the five that have received extensive testing and feedback. A new companion could justify a patch on their own, probably even more than a new class would.
Conversations at the subreddit and even this place have become rather circular and banal. There's really not much to discuss that hasn't already been talked over anymore, and as you just discovered on Reddit, most of the people that remain are all basically apologists who equate any criticism with being a hater.
