Quote Originally Posted by gifthorse View Post
I am not trying to keep this game from changing, I am trying to keep it changing for the worse. You said the gaming industry is a business, well guess what, crappy games don't attract revenue. Automating combat is no means of improving it. Likewise, making the game more efficient can sometimes only destroy the atmosphere.

If you think automating combat is the answer to the game, then Guild Wars 2 and TERA say "hi". Welcome to the twenty first century. Tanaka was on the right track with a combat system which strived to make positioning matter and where people had to take an active role in combat. Yoshi is set to destroy the foundations of the game that even gave it a chance to compete against the upcoming rivals. Remember MMOs are a business.

The developers think WoW 2.0 is the fix the game needs, and it's not. They are completely misguided, and it's quite a shame. I already quit the game now, but I still don't want all SE's work to go to waste simply because they took the wrong approach.
to me it's like yoshi is looking at the game saying how can i get enough players to join the game to break even. these stupid revisions(arrgo indicator, auto-attack, and exclamation points over npc's) are the exact things a clueless person would do. these changes are made to try to cut as many losses as they can before they move onto another game because they have lost direction as a company and have no idea what people want anymore. they realize they can't get it fixed so they are covering it with enough band aids to get enough people here for the short term and break even overall. there are just covers over a broken game, but they are not able to get it put together.

i never thought i'd say it, but i am really wishing this game had tanaka back. at least he had a direction. if we had allowed him to finish his ideas i feel this game would have been fine, but we brought in another that seems to be worse in the case he had to come in and start over.