Community Involvement - it's improved, but it's still pretty damned poor in crucial areas.
Bots & Gold Farmers - BotWatch seems to be working well, and obviously RWT needs dealing with..I'm quite happy with the current progress on this, keep up the good work.
Micro-payments - Still too often, to be honest. Also, where's my pet update? All I saw was a MTX pet update...all of the other pets seem to have been completely ignored, and we got a bunch of 100% useless (for everyone that doesn't buy an MTX pet, and one of the new options is useless even for those with an MTX pet, which makes no sense) options on the summoning icon as well that don't go away with a familiar summoned.
Everyone was told we'd get a new pet interface making all pets much like the new MTX ones ended up being..what we got was nothing of the sort - many of them just stopped running away at 100% hunger (but they still get hungry and there's every indication that they still run away until 100%)..there's no new interface for normal pets at all, there was no real pet update, just another MTX update.
Oh right, and NEVER EVER do anything like sunbathe emote again beyond making it available again so that players can actually complete their emotes list again.
Promotions/giveaways - too many indeed..a great deal of them are MTX related as well, but excessive free XP is bad enough as is.
Evolution of Combat - was released too early and now the live game has to suffer through what is effectively a beta, especially with the major changes such as changing from linear to exponential curves for gear, making skill levels once again meaningless...I'm sure it'll be good when it's finished, but you were far too eager to release it and players will understandably get impatient when you release something then take quite a while to fix the bugs/finish the update.
Game Updates - Sounds good, at least of the surface..I'll wait and see though, been disappointed all too many times this past year.
25-Jan-2013 17:57:01
