Things to do?

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 12:03 (3986 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The Guardian interview with Pete Parsons that came out today actually directly addresses your concerns. Obviously they aren't specific yet, but it does let us know they have a plan to directly address the desire to have things to do constantly.

Here's the quote:

A storyline is finite while a persistent MMO-style game is infinite. How do you reconcile those two things?

Story in games is quite a bit different in linear media. A story in a movie will never change. While we can only have so many chapters inside of the game, we can still give you things to do day on day, week on week, year on year.
The story becomes just one of the many activities that are valuable. We hope the stories that people will tell won't necessarily be about the fiction, but will be about the things they've done together. That's not a bullshit answer. We are going to give you new things to do every single day, every single week even if it's not storyline in the traditional sense.