While I agree Funcom is sabotaging the game, I do not believe there is enough competence being displayed for it to be deliberate.

One of the things I learned many decades ago was there are, essentially, two types of creators. Those who see their work going off-path and are determined to keep adding to it, believing if they try hard enough, everything will be okay and those that see their work go off-path and stop, reset, and clean slate a solution.

An example of this was a tech who worked for me in the early 2000’s. We were getting 30-40 new laptops in a week to provision. This tech decided to create a master install disk to “save time.” The problem was that Dell used a lowest cost model for parts and the drivers for the same model of the same laptop manufactured at the same time, were different.

They spent a week to setup their master install disk, used it on all laptops, then spent, on the average, 1.5 hours updating various drivers per laptop.

The time to do a base install? Around 60 minutes.

I told them they needed to stop. They were adamant that they didn’t want all the time they had spend on the initial disk to go to waste.

Funcom producers are this person. Determined to justify bad decisions rather than admit there is a better way and embrace it.

Because while everyone complains about the devs, the devs are implementers, not deciders.

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