You know… I really wish it wasn’t the case, but that really describes how I feel about a lot of their announcements…
The most stress this game has caused me in the past year is that… Whether or not they screw something up that’s been working perfectly fine with all their “reworks”… or maybe break all my mods for no good reason 
And I’m not the only one on that btw… modders are getting increasingly stressed out by the weird and often unexplained changes they decide to throw in along with very rushed and buggy devkits (some are thinking of quitting because of this)
New stuff is always welcome… like… the clan banners… the treasure hoard… the Mek-Kamoses / Kurak storyline… those are all absolutely awesome and people are fine with it… That’s what they should be focusing on…
But I’m not so happy they keep touching things that they have absolutely no business or real reason touching… especially when it’s so obviously just “smoke and mirrors” and doesn’t actually involve any “real work” but rather… “tweaking settings” and taking shortcuts, then creating hype around it to sell it as the next big thing…
I’m just going to casually drop this here…
It’s like they threw all the data in one of those bingo machines and gave it a good spin 
People who have seen me around these parts know that I really don’t jump to conclusions and mindlessly complain or “bash” Funcom and to be fair I’m not really doing it now either…
I just think they should’ve focused on the new stuff and not try to “bloat” the update by selling the act of altering already existent server configurations and mass-updating item / npc stats as “new content”…
And if they did decide to rework this aspect of the game, then at least they should’ve done it right and not have so many missed opportunities… (like the ones we talked about the other day)
If they really wanted to mess with stats, then the ball is still on the floor that they dropped when it comes to pets… they could’ve focused on reworking their stats so that they’re once again viable followers… That’s actually something people asked for 