In today’s gaming landscape, players have a nearly bottomless buffet of choices for how to spend their time. Free-to-play and seasonal live-service platforms are everywhere, all competing for people’s attention and prolonged engagement by way of perpetual updates and shiny IP collabs to break through the noise. But for the better part of a decade, one game has weathered the ebbs and flows of the industry and evolved to meet players’ expectations, regularly setting the trend for what has and