So I finally got around to logging in today, and boy oh boy what a clusterfuck.
First off, on logging in, I get this screen:
Yeah. The anime soft child porn is back. Started to just x out right there, but figured I go on the rest of the way and see how bad it got.
So I get into the game and the ship was sitting in a holiday themed port that looked just awful. I mean, everything looked "cartoony", not semi-real as it used to. So I swopped out to a regular port and it looked pretty much the same.
So I set up for a co-op game since it's been a while since I played. And yeah, they've done something to the lighting that has flat-out ruined how the game looks.
So I finished the game (won, of course) and I get this; I've not seen this before:
So I get back to port, start clicking around a bit and guess what. They
STILL have the
CHRISTMAS specials going on with
TWO DAYS LEFT. In fucking February!
And guess what else! Go on, guess!
As if the "Christmas at Valentine's Day" shit wasn't enough, there's
SPACE SHIT!
And if the Space Shit doesn't get you going, there's always the Anime Soft Child Porn shit to get you going!
This is, beyond all doubt, the biggest, walking, talking, breathing cluster-fuck I have ever seen in my life. This is
CLEARLY a company that is so desperate they are throwing
EVERYTHING at the wall in the vain hope that something,
ANYTHING, will stick.
It was once a brilliant game. It was the game without the stat whores, without the clan rigging, without the bogus as hell bullshit...
And look what it has become.
Disgraceful. There's no other word for it. Just flat-out disgraceful.