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A friend told me that they wanted to release before WoW's new expansion, which I just looked up, releases on the 26th of August...Which makes no sense considering how many people seem to be affected by this botched graphical 'update'. In EW I noticed some really 'immersion' breaking things, like excessively repeating textures that are too obvious in Labyrinthos, an entire cave that the MSQ takes you through...that is just empty and ugly. Flickering islands in ultima thule's background. Lack of care given to the visual clarity of fights...

I don't believe they were confident that this expansion was going to carry itself and needed something cool and shiny and 'new' to hype it up. That's just my opinion, I think they may have thought people are going to love it. In my eyes I think SE has been making very bad decisions leading up to DT that honestly soured the taste of this expansion for many. Payment processor change into the can of worms that is the 'unfinished' benchmark and the countless other issues that the release of DT introduced.

I can't say anything about the story but I've had friends tell me they didn't enjoy it. I set very low expectations for it too, but somehow this expansion managed to disappoint me. I get strange FPs drops doing alliance raids despite meeting the recommended settings, I can't stand any of the ARR alliance raids, the saturation and luminosity and contrast in these raids is busted and it hurts to look at. Ever since I got a headache from gathering for custom deliveries I became scared. I had to look away from my screen during Castrum Meridianum's explosions before Boss#2...

I always felt like this wasn't ready for release, if they 'forgot' to update the benchmark- the introduction of the graphical update to the players...it shows how much they really cared about it. I'd rather them take time and deliver a good product than 'we'll release it and fix it later'. I preordered this and renewed my sub, and honestly? It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, at times I can't even play the game I used to play for hours. I shouldn't be scared of what might pop in the roulette because someone decided to make something radioactive for my eyes.

They ruined my favorite mount Regalia by adding mount tilt, everything feels so wobbly, I feel like the mount tilt maybe belongs to motorcycles. Nothing else, it's done cheaply and it sucks and I wish to turn it off because it makes me sick.

Sigh...sorry I babbled again. I'm just really tired of this. I've been playing Wuthering Waves, but I miss this game...all I can do is do roulettes to 'level'...at this point I'll be lv100 on everyone before even touching the expansion.