If not all game are designed to please everyone, your specific complaints appear superficial to me. Personally, this game feels really solid and functional to me, especially for a less-than-a-month-old MMO (official release date = August 27th). Is it a perfect game, of course not.

I can't say for your lag experience, but sometimes, your Internet provider could be the real culprit. I'm not from Europe, but I've played a few MMOs on European servers and lag didn't affect my gameplay enough to make me switch back to American servers just for that. Then again, I only writing about lags and not all of the other nasty things server related.

Bugged area of effects. The red area marker is on the ground until replaced by the creature attack animation. Even if you'd live next to the datacenter, if you wait until the attack is launch to get out, even if you beat the animation, the attack will damage you. You need to have left the zone before the creature's casting bar is filled. Considering Europe has a larger ping, you need to get out of the zone as soon as you see it (and NOT try to land a few more blows). You need to focus on: red = get out right away. Trying to get a few more damage points will only result in you getting hurt.

No right-click to block spammer is a game design. It was not intended to be needed and there is a lot of other things to work on before something so insignificant. It is possible to set filters though. Personally, I use other chat tabs when gil sellers annoys me. In these other tabs, I remove shout so I get ignore all of them at once.

For community manager, this is first and foremost a Japanese game and there is a HUGE amount of threads created in the English forums each day (and a hell lot of duplicates). Taking charge of all the whining on the forums takes superhuman skills. We do receive an official translation of the major announcement, so that should count.

For the one month and nothing, this is false. 2 weeks ago, there was a massive server overhaul. Now, they are working on server transfer. SE wants everyone to be able to play properly at this point, which is why digital sales were closed and no physical copies of the game were given outside Japan for a while.


For you to feel abandoned, I'm assuming you are new to MMOs. The key with MMOs is patience. People are working as hard as they can, but the human body has its limits (so does coffee). It is also good to know that what appears simple and quick, never is. Programming is a gamble. If I correct that bug, will that create another bug? If I change this line of code, will I mess up these other lines... The trick is to have fun. Focus on what you like and enjoy. If there is nothing you enjoy, I'm afraid there is unfortunately nothing that will change your mind.

My opinion,
Lloyd Shade