Except that many console/controller users have also expressed how much worse the new ‘system’ is. Likewise, even if this were a clear improvement for console/controllers, that still does not justify moronic decisions such as locking facing in combat (poorly patched, so we can now move in combat, but constantly get locked while harvesting). The game had functioning movement for all control systems - it now has less functional movement with any control system.
Similarly, radial menus - we already had those, and that was fine. The primary change made was to remove mouse pointers and make them less reliably interactable - instead now mouse has to be used to mimic controller movements. This cannot possibly actually be easier from a code perspective either - since they still have to have full code for controller input vs KB/M input - it just removes functionality from KB/M.
Apparently an issue for PVP. While I accept that means it needed ‘fixing’, it is yet another thing lost for everyone else - adding yet more fuel to the fire when certain morons claim after every update that ‘nothing was done for PVP’. (To be clear - many PVPers do not make such claims - but there are always some that do, no matter what has been stripped away from the rest of us to fix something in PVP.)
Agreed - none of this is in any way an improvement. All just downgrade or unnecessary added complication. Removal of the ‘Stop’ command is particularly pointless. The only reason I can come up with for it being that it was a sideways attempt to stop people ‘exploiting’ Al Merayah for instant levelling of thralls. So to ‘fix’ a problem of their own creation, that was only a problem in their minds, they have once again removed basic functions that were used by the rest of us for perfectly reasonable purposes.
Nothing but trash. No added value, just destruction of everything that came before and every lesson learned by the industry across decades. All done with the most arrogant and stupid possible excuses that could be given - ‘no one uses it anyway’…
Pointless, worthless. Makes looted dyes utterly pointless. For many of us, this in effect removes the dye system from the game entirely.
But what does any of this matter to me? In the end, I’ve pretty much quit this game. Doubt I’ll ever do much more than dip a toe in from time to time to see if something (anything at all ever) has actually improved. I no longer have any faith in Funcom. Certainly won’t ever spend another penny on any product they make