I, for one, don't expect 1.18 to magically make the game great.

Nor am I pretending that SE is completely on track, since the launched product almost a year ago wasn't worth the packaging it came in.

SE's track record for the immediate past is pretty bad, not even counting FFXIV. That's why last year their profits were down so much.

The reality of the situation is that Square Enix as a whole is undergoing changes as they try to fix their financial position, adjust their thinking and practices that lead them there, and try to fix this abomination of a game.

Furthermore, Japan as a nation is still recovering from a pretty cataclysmic event.

None of these are said in the spirit of scapegoating or making excuses. All of them have a legitimate effect on how long it will take to get this game into a working state.

We don't know how big the teams are, we don't know how many people are working on each aspect of each patch. The one thing we do know is that the teams have all undergone pretty heavy staff changes, going through another person's code is tricky business, our impatience on the matter doesn't change that.

You can stand by, scoff and say "excuses!" Personally I agree with the OP. I think this game has been in a terrible state for far too long, and I agree with shipp in that i think some of the minor tweaks and changes they've been wasting time on are worthless in the long run and delaying the changes that need to happen.

Those, too, are part of the reality of the situation. There's no recompense for buying a bad game. Everyone who bought Too Human doesn't get to run to silicon knights and say "You owe us more!"

SE is trying to fix the game, the time frame for the fixes is directly proportionate to how much money they want to spend on it, and from their financial position I'm guessing it's already far more than they wanted to.

I, however, am not in a huge hurry. If they want to keep taking the time to try and make things work, I'm still willing to check in every month or so and see if I like what's changed.

If you aren't, then don't.