All the big changes in 2013???!!!!!

[ellohwell]

Who are you talking for? You sure as hell aren't a current player.

Speak for yourself. You don't play.

The lag is still prevalent. I end up spamming actions as much as ever (even before the combat update) due to the server lag. The dye system ruined a lot of the game. The crafting dumb down oversimplified crafting. The materia system is just a grind with a Korean RNG crafting system tacked onto it at the end for kicks.

They've made some headway, but it isn't enough. "You sure as hell aren't a current player."

If you didn't like this game from the beginning why did you play it?

Maybe you should ask SE that. They are brutalizing a lot of the original game concepts (such as non-instanced world).