Quote Originally Posted by OhNooo View Post
I've felt this way since SHB. I was an AST main back in StB and ended up switching to WHM because I hated the AST changes. Then I got tired of Glare spam and started playing more dps. I think I was distracted by the story in SHB and it wasn't until a little while after I finished the story that I started realizing the game just felt different. I'm not sure how to explain it but I could feel that the game was headed in a different direction.
Coincidentally, ShB seems to be around the time when "journalists" reached a fever pitch of praising the game for being perfect and amazing and there was more shilling and advertising than ever more. The streamer shill boom, too. StB was getting there (they even had a... wrestling promo? ads in NY Times Square, fast food promos with the holy Zenos chalice, etc.)