When will they acknowledge that the gameplay is just horrendous?

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Do they play their own game?

Yes. They have attacked other game developers for not playing their own game. The developers said they cap their weekly tomestones and do the raids themselves. Yoshi-P has even streamed himself doing savage and alliance raids, and the community team also do this regularly on twitch.

Do they have testers?

Over 100 if you check the credits and look at their past development panels that explain the QA process. It's why the game is so bug-free compared to many other games and software apps.

In fact, if you think there is a bug that isn't addressed, feel free to post it in the bug forum and SE will cast their judgement and tell you if it's a bug or not.

It all comes down to pressing the same piano loop ad nauseam

The game is basically rehearsing a dance. That's just how this game works. Whether you like that is up to you tbh, but it has been this way for most of the game's life.

while dealing with the artificial lag/delay

Partly this is a design decision. They want the effect to be tied to the animation, so there is an "animation delay" before the effect, which many other games don't bother with. They have actually been adjusting this recently, in PvP and with invulns, so we'll see where that goes.

Problem is, if you have the effect happen early, you get gap closers jump in before the jump animation occurs, which is most likely why they felt they had to change the animation.

It's also just however they code it. The testers don't control if the programmers are good at programming. Their job is just to remove bugs, not bad programming or infrastructure decisions.

A lot of the issues you're likely frustrated about aren't as easy to notice at low pings and the developers likely have very low pings.

GCD/OGCD just scrap this, it doesn't work and is a major contributor to the s... gameplay. Just do a fast GCD like WoW.

I don't like GCDs that fast, personally. I think they just need to improve the code behind that. But the truth is that QoL isn't their priority and when they do focus on it, it takes them years so it's ultimately a programmer or mindset issue.

Skills that turn into other skills, mostly meaningless aoe potency bloat to add artificial complexity.

Well it's also about the animations, realistically. They know a lot of players are into glamour and animations, so it's not aimed at people looking for complexity.

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Yes. They have attacked other game developers for not playing their own game.

Every thing they prided themselves for not doing and attacked others for, they're now doing the exact same thing lmao