Quote Originally Posted by Haji View Post
In this case I totally disagree. Or rather, what is the right thing to do is also the wrong thing to do.

The simple truth is that upon release the game had no content. If they stopped adding it, the game would become dead, or nearly so. They had to add the content to keep people occupied. If they can't keep people occupied, then repairing the core of the game becomes irrelevant.

There are some arguments and variations to this, but to put it simply: If you want to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible, then you should just shut the game (to save on server fees) and re-launch it when it's ready. If you want the game to keep running, you have to make compromises. And this compromise means that adding content is of equal importance to fixing core game issues.
The problem with that is if you make the compromises, the game will never get fixed because you have 2 options::
1) release a HUGE balance patch where everything is changed
or
2) change the core then change everything later
The former won't come in any reasonable time if they're constantly adding new content because it balancing gets much more complex the more stuff you have to balance. The later gives you with a completely broken game when the changes are first applied.

The only way you'll see the game get fixed in reasonable time is if SE says sorry to the Rank 50 people, fixes the core of the game, and then works on adding new stuff on top of it. Is the forum a step in the right direction? Yes but it doesn't solve everything and in fixing the game, they'll have to accept the fact that trying to make everyone happy isn't going to solve anything in a reasonable time. And in trying to make everyone happy, they're pissing people off. Fixing the core of the game needs to be the number 1 priority and if they do a good job in communicating that with us, people will stay, they might take a break from playing for a bit but they'll stay. We are beta testing this game and as testers we need to remember that fixes to the game need to come before new content. If SE has to take down the servers for a bit to get those fixes done with less moaning on our part then so be it. When the servers went down after the earthquake we lived. I think we can manage if the servers go down for another week or two or even a month so SE can fix stuff like server lag or implement the battle system changes they've mentioned.