The portal back to the Rogue Isles does not vanish though. It's not strictly a meta-game thing. It is real, the contacts acknowledge it, and successful content would immediately provide answers to the question "why don't I take it?"
Precisely. I'm not talking about turning off the game. I'm talking about walking out of the zone the same way I came in, then taking the portal back to Paragon City to spend the night at a nice hotel and have a fancy breakfast the neck morning, and maybe a relaxing massage. What's that? People in First Ward are suffering? Eh, they can wait.
It's like playing Silent Hill, but always being able to just get into your car, drive out of town, buy some guns, hire a security firm and come back in force. Or drive out of town and never come back. "Survival" doesn't work if nothing threatens your survival, and in First Ward, nothing ever does. Who cares if the Gumbo gets overrun? I can always take the same door out I used to come in.
The only thing keeping me fighting for the First Ward is because I don't WANT to leave, and the only reason I don't want to leave is because I want to help. There's no practical benefit to be gained from getting "embroiled" in events and the LITERAL door back out to the old world is always wide open if I want to use it. That's not survival.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
It's like playing Silent Hill, but always being able to just get into your car, drive out of town, buy some guns, hire a security firm and come back in force. Or drive out of town and never come back. "Survival" doesn't work if nothing threatens your survival, and in First Ward, nothing ever does. Who cares if the Gumbo gets overrun? I can always take the same door out I used to come in.
The only thing keeping me fighting for the First Ward is because I don't WANT to leave, and the only reason I don't want to leave is because I want to help. There's no practical benefit to be gained from getting "embroiled" in events and the LITERAL door back out to the old world is always wide open if I want to use it. That's not survival.