If you think that story keep this game alive you are very wrong. I am in one of bigest guild on RE. Im raider, maybe not hard core, but i cleared almost all ops. We won almost all conqest events in last few months, we had 2 progression raid teams with few backup players, we had lots of casual players who played ops.
We had events with sm ops for new players where progression raiders leads gropus with firsttimers, sometimes we had 7-8 groups in one night. 50-60 ppl ware online every night. I raided, raiding with PUG groups a lot, i never left group cos of wipes, ppl make mistakes, but almost all learn from those mistakes, this is part of progression.
We waited for new group content.... and finally was the stream (last one) ... and they told us that will be no group content until end of the year. And what happened.... let me quote friend from my guild "Takes 1 livestream to kill a game ... gg EA r e t a r d s". Now guild is dead, 5 ppl online. Most raiders, casual and STORY players canceled subs and went to other games.
No fun playing game when no friends around. I have over 100 ppl on my friends list, pre 4.0 almost all was online every day, now list is dead.
FFS devs wake up this is MMO not some singiel player offline game. I have 16 chars all on 65lvl, guess how many times ive done KotFE....? only ONE time. I have 3 chars from 60lvl tokens they end up on 2nd or 3rd chapter when they hit 65lvl. For me is to many cinematics and to little play. One thing in KotFE i liked very much ... HK-55 and what? ... they killed him and there is Lana.... omg .... calling me "Outlander" this is just freaking anoying.