Is 1.18 the final straw?

[Jinrya-Geki]

As far as things are concerned, the only thing that's wrong at the moment is the speed they are updating the game. It's been what... 3-4 months since the last REAL big update? That's far too long to wait for a new update. I understand that there has been natural disasters in Japan that have been affecting their work, but that was already ages ago and even in the time after that they should have been able to come up with something more than a measly targeting update (1.17b).

If there is only a handful of people working on the game, it's almost sure that the game will plummet even further than it is now and this is because people (yes, even myself) are getting tired of waiting new updates when the game really does suck at the moment and is boring to play, mostly because of repeatative actions such as leves and crafting. There's no sure way to resolve this whole issue, but as long as there's only 10-20 people in the dev / coding team, this isn't moving as fast as it should.

What usually happens with a new coming MMO is that, they hire a lot of people to speed up the launch of the game. SE failed big time with this as the game wasn't nearly as ready as it should have been. So, I think SE should employ some staff (at least temporarily) to fix the game's status before people abandon the ship. In the long run, it will cost them less money financially than if they keep processing the game at the same speed they are going at it now.

Pretty sure they are still feeling the effects of it.

[Spellbinder]

Pretty sure they are still feeling the effects of it.

I certainly notice it going to school everyday.