Oooh, oogy boogy. *Wiggles fingers.* Be afraaaaaaaid.
Much drifters, so scared, many ships.
In case it wasn't totally clear, I'm not impressed. It may not be utterly lore-breaking in the way previous trailers have been, but this one still seemed to be firmly set in the problematic realm of "if things aren't EPIC!!11!, then no one will care!"
Here's the problem: Right now, we have absolutely no reason to be scared of these things.
"But Esna," you say, "it's for an upcoming expansion; they might not attack now, but surely things will get scary then! Didn't you see them going in on the attack?"
Yes, I absolutely did.
You know who else declared all-out war on capsuleers? Sansha.
The earliest days of incursions, for those who weren't around, were bloodbaths. Ships died by the dozens as people experimented with configurations to fight the Sansha; a successful mothership run was serious business.
Nowadays?
They're farmable content; worse yet, from what I've heard the Vigilant Tyrannos can already be reliably farmed by capital ships with the correct setup. So they blew up the Jovian gates? So what; there has literally been zero repercussion from this in meaningful terms (ingame or lorewise: how are the rest of the Big 4, or the pirate factions, reacting to the emergence? We have no idea). Want the Vigilant Jove to be scary? Have them welp a few nullsec fleets. Creating an enemy who is only threatening outside of a fight is not creating an effective enemy.
Worse yet, it's becoming increasingly apparent that CCP is unwilling to have the NPC factions pose a major threat to actual player organizations; we have to win, otherwise it isn't 'fun'.
To receive this (in my opinion) uninteresting and thematically unsuited content, we've been hit with the near-absolute excision of all development and living activity of all other factions in the game.
And I am not amused.
