After almost what feels like 10 years of playing (migrated from 2 other accounts so maybe less than 10 years? Im just going to say 10 years since i was there since old nexus), Realm is finally getting boring to me and i’m sure to countless others. This is not because Realm is inherently a boring game. This is of course a natural process as much of realms feelings of progression is stemmed from character stats and items that have a hard ceiling. When you finally get a jugg after 10 years (seriously it took me up until a little while ago to get my first event white after 10 goddamn years!) there’s not much else to progress to. And what i want to emphasize is the “not much else” part because there is something to progress to. That one item you still don’t have however the nature of having to narrow your goals into this one little thing compared to the boundless amounts to a new player will make the game feel grindy and boring because the only way to get Oryx’s ST set is to fight O2 over and over and over again. I also think its worth noting that the values of regular items after reaching this chad level are worthless. I have given away countless tops, lefts countless potions and even in some cases white bags because at my level, its the same as getting nothing and with the already abundant of 0’s along with this, feelings of satisfaction of getting items becomes very uncommon and that uncommonality turns to boredom. Many people do PPE/NPE because it makes that feeling of satisfaction more common. Realm, i feel, is a game that shouldn’t really last a player 10 years because there is not 10 years worth of content. Its more like 1 year worth of content stretched out because of exponential growth of the game becoming more grindier the more you become stronger along with rng. Games like CSGO are timeless because any sense of progression is not reliant on the game but the player. Every match is never really the same because the unpredictability comes from your skills and not the game as where Realm is completely the same every time. Sit in one spot and spam at the boss because you have 10 healers and a jugg, do this 100 more times to get a crystal sword and not the wand because the game is a piece of shit. Hopefully O3 and post-unity will allow the game to expand bigger and faster (and after COVID-19) because there is not enough new content being made for players just events that make them go through even more monotonous grinding. I know Deca is doing their best but having the game where it stands be on life support via keys is worrisome. I love this game for its simplicity but i know that it is not incapable of nuance. Honestly though, the point i’m trying to make is where the hell is my Ogmur.
TL:DR Realm is fundamentally finite because of its RPG aspects