not to derail much more but the adverts was 'head start' to launch, not 'paid beta'.
all the board traffic was 'runs great'
every mmo is in a perpetual state of development, so tweakage is a fact of life.
but when basic mechanics are broken, that can't be any anybody's best interest, and letting someone think that its 'all right' that their broken, really isn't in there best interest either...since not many people are going to play a broken game.
I got to side with Dubanka on this one. The basically broken combat system IS a "feature" which absolutely needs to be addressed as quickly as possible. It has already caused a few folks to decide to ask for a refund, and the longer it remains unaddressed, the more folks who will quit in disgust, or never join at all. To say that the cards were on the table in terms of "Prelude" versus the next expansion, the combat system is table stakes, and needs to be fixed now. Its not a feature which can be added later. Its a feature which is in the current product which is broken.
I don't disagree with him at all, and I think it is everyone's right to ask for a refund if they don't get what they paid for. I just don't see it as a big deal during the first month of the game, personally. I understand what I paid for.
The only thing that I am saying is that we weren't left in the dark about the state of the game systems. Yet we chose to buy it anyway.
What Dubanka is saying is that this game will be largely worthless and probably DOA unless this very crucial and basic game feature is fixed in a timely manner. He's also being quite constructive about it and raving about the potential this game obviously has. He's not asking for a refund.