Quote Originally Posted by LlenCoram View Post
For what it's worth, I won't even be touching phase 3. I was going to dedicate my entire phase 3 play time to testing the new fishing and trying to see past my rose-tinted nostalgia about 1.0's mechanics and see the good in the new system. If there was no good, I was prepared to leave excellent feedback about it. However, SE won't let me fish. Since that's the case, I can't be bothered. Everything else that I might enjoy in the game, I'd like to leave to phase 4 or launch. Discovering the new La Noscea? Launch. Figuring out how to play Monk? Launch. Getting back together with my beloved linkshell? Launch.
That's just a piss poor attitude. The game is still in a testing state and a large portion of the game assets are getting dumped into the game in Phase 3. Just because the one thing you want to play most won't be available, the other 99.99% of the game needs to be bug checked.

I want to fish just as much as the next person, but there's obviously not much we can do about it at this point. There's many other things I like about the game besides fishing, so I'm going to do my utmost to try to break those to ensure they get fixed and the game at launch is as polished as it can be.