Too many flashy abilities?

[casker]

But it's your poor ability to understand, though I would state that it's more like bitching that the cookie dough doesn't look like a cookie. Your complaints are still premature. Alpha is not meant to display game content or actions, it's meant to test server stability. It is understood that most things (animations, quest, et.) are likely already changed. Beta is when such things are actually being tested.

It's not like a cookie at all. That's the whole point and why the analogy is stupid. Alerith essentially said it's like a cookie and then said not to compare it to a cookie because he knows his analogy doesn't logically fit. A game can change based on feedback at whatever stage. A cookie does not. They both finally reach their form but a cookie doesn't take feedback into account. The games final shape is not a given. A cookie's is.

I can assume things like textures will get better. Optimization will get better, and now that they confirmed it, animations should get better. Those are pretty much the only thing we should take for granted like the cookie dough taking form. For anything else, saying "IT'S JUST AN ALPHA" is horsecrap. The alpha is meant for server stability and what not but its stupid to assume that the "game content or actions" are going to be drastically different from what we've got, just because. There is absolutely no downside in telling them what you think about what they've got earlier on in the cycle.