If I'm ever going to go on a long winded rant this is it:

Remember how it was entirely up to you to plan and execute how to do anything in XI? yeah well those days are gone. SE is going to hold your hand through this entire thing making sure that the experience is exactly the same on every playthrough.

I don't know if this is common knowledge but at least everybody in the game industry seems to understand that basing the challenge around a time-limit is possible the laziest way to do game design for anything else than speed-based games.

Honestly given the way they "fixed" the need to jump or the scale of the enemies. I should have seen this one coming.

I feel really dumb for once again hoping to be pleasantly surprised by SE it's all my fault really since they've cut every single corner so far in their patches why was I so irrational to think this patch would be any different?

I can't even tell if that new piece of gear is new or just a palette swap, that's how same-y they look to me.

Yes I am angry and there will be someone in 3 seconds telling me to just quit the game.
I hope in some way I could let SE know how deeply this latest project has hurt me because after playing XI I was expecting so much out of it. I've payed hundreds of euros for SE and Squaresoft games and seeing how they've broken their promises on "these changes will be coming soon"-letters ... it kills me.

ugh... I've never felt this way about a game before it's like watching your close relative become an alcoholic and there's nothing you can do about it.

I'm not just angry I feel genuinely hurt by the way SE has let us all down.