Quote Originally Posted by Barimu View Post
Honestly, I kind of miss Hiromichi Tanaka. Not that I don't like Yoshi-P, but his will to please everyone is just horrible because he's doing terrible things to please people that just log on once or twice a week by giving so many handouts.
I don't think it's about giving "handouts" - I think that he just didn't understand what players enjoyed about the old NM systems in XI and how it could translate to the modern mmo. I don't think we would have nearly as many complaints if the "hunts" had been a re-interpretation of the ZNM system in XI. That's a good example of something that a linkshell could work together on, take down powerful monsters in the world, and get a good reward for success. Instead, he put in monsters that were basically 0 challenge for a zerg, and they drop far too much reward. FAR too much.

So in short - it's only going to take a couple more of these idiotic systems before I take my gaming dollars back to blizzard. At least when their playerbase screams at them that something is broken, they acknowledge it and try to come up with reasonable adjustments. SE just doesn't care. It's like they believe that the job is over now that gaming mags and sites have re-reviewed it and given them a 9\10.