Quote Originally Posted by MetalSnakeXI1 View Post
I'm not dismissing what you say.....it's just I'm a bit of a newbie since I joined in June of this year
There in lies why you do not see the problems. This game is great and fantastic for new players. Its veteran retention that is the problem. Once you are around for awhile you will begin to see the pattern and realize you are just doing the same thing now you've done for every patch, just with a different skin.

SE needs to innovate and stop letting content fall by the wayside. Their lack of communication is one thing, but their lack of creativity and how they design nothing to last more than 3 months is a whole other. They need to start designing for the long term player instead of the new ones. They are always bragging about how hard core of gamers they are but I personally do not believe them in the slightest since they are making mistakes no actual gamer would make in game design. And it all goes back to Yoshida, which is why I place everything on his shoulders and why I think they should find someone new to take over. Because unless his hands are tied by someone higher up, he is not making choices that are good for the life of this game in the long run. He did a phenomenal job rebooting the game. But it's been a series of bad choices since.

Also lets have an expansion that is its own thing. I have said it before and I will say it again, we have literally been dealing with Ascians and Garlemald since v1 and its getting sooo boring. No matter whats going on we know that is somehow leads back to Ascians and the Empire. /snore I am so ready to move on.