The sad thing is, the devs knew what they were doing for the entire 6.x patch cycle. The main devs were not on any of them and had their junior devs working them instead. For the story team, as an example, each of the different junior devs got their own 6.x patch. This was publicly stated around the end of 6.0 and the start of 6.1.

After hearing that, I got worried but kept my hopes up. Well, my worst fears have come true as it appears that all of the departments have done the same thing.

I don’t mind using a single patch as a test or training run but not the whole expansion. The amount of good will and trust that has been burned with this move is going to show down the road with possibly degraded metacritic scores when DT arrives. Hopefully DT will get a good review on its own but I expect some knock on effect will happen from EW.