Quote Originally Posted by Quor View Post
Big true here. The removal of Kaiten (and the addition of auto-crits, and the change to Tenka) was bad, BUT! if SE had been transparent about all of this, with showcases of what SAM would become and how the overall feel of the gameplay would be preserved AND it was done in an appropriate manner - i.e. not in the middle of an already-released xpac, but rather in the lead-up to a new xpac
There is literally zero reason to do changes incrementally to lead to a design change for a job. Literally none. They either should have done the full revamp or nothing at all. Having said that I agree with the rest of your post =)