If you are correct, that is unfortunate.

That said, the lead dev recently got promoted to director.
Based on what this one knows of industry, what you are calling management decisions are the preview of the director with, of course, input from the producers.

Regarding the AAA (oh, wait, according to Ubisoft they are AAAA now) development houses… Point taken. Funcom is just embracing their status as a money backed organization.

Regardless, who is responsible is immaterial.
What matters is whether the product delivers.
For this one, that answer is no.
This one has given ever opportunity for it to do so.
But at the end of the day, if a game is not fun, it is not worth playing. At this interval (and this one will try for a week or so to see if the UI changes become more tolerable) this one finds the game more trouble than it’s worth. Which is a shame given the combat correction and content added for this update. If only it weren’t wrapped around another undesired and ill conceived new square wheel 2 electric bugaloo.

In short, believe what you will.
Make excuses for whoever you wish.
This one has no deep personal affinity for any of the Funcom staff and only vague dislike for a couple (“I play on console” and “there’s a mod for that” in the same dev stream from the same person has left this one with a bland disdain and distrust for that individual, but that’s an archaism, in the modern age it is expected that anything older than a few weeks is basically forgotten myth) and so has no skin in the this person that person matter.
What this one looks at is the game, and what the official mouth piece says about the decisions made. If the official mouthpiece has lied, then may their teeth rot, their tongue wither (possibly be eaten by a Cymothoa Exigua, but that’s not fair to the poor isopod) and the roof of their mouth be perpetually coated in bagma (the molten contents of pizza rolls, fresh out of the frier, still hot and sticky. Like the cheese of pizza, but also with just a touch of corruption to it that only modern, plastic, food can bring). This isn’t personal animosity. This is a general curse on all official mouth pieces who lie.

Right, back on track.
The game.
It’s not fun for this one anymore.
Every new update for the past few cycles has made it less desirable to play.
For those who like where it is and the trajectory it is going in, cheers.
This one is largely finished inflicting this annoyance upon themselves in their recreational time.

This one is not demanding a refund or anything similar. The $/hr of amusement ratio has been good. It’s just unfortunate that all interactions in the past couple updates have depreciated it.

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