OrangeRKN wrote:...Big updates like this trigger my anxiety in that they can fundamentally change the game, and that can mean never being able to go back to how things were. It used to be an exclusively MMO problem, but now it affects pretty much every "Game as a service".
Oh, I agree, Orange! The game has a core set of fans who enjoy it as it is (I do, too!) and, yeah, there is a concern that the game could be changed to suit other tastes. As a positive comparison, I hugely enjoyed the relative simplicity of No Man's Sky a time launch and the subsequent enhancements (big changes!) did change the experience... but, in time, I could appreciate that the game was better.
I hope that much of the same feel is there, but with other options to explore, too.