Originally Posted by
Edge-
Yeah, it's better than the current state but still pretty shit. It just amazes me that a loot-based game has such significant issues with loot right out of the gate. It's deeply concerning for the future of the game, because while there are a lot of fantastic gameplay systems (flying is amazing, combat is solid, abilities are rad etc. etc.) a lot of the associated systems (loot, customization, etc.) are in need of a whole lot of work.
I'm increasingly getting to the point where I'd totally support them shutting the game down for a month or two to do some serious under-the-hood work and then relaunching. Because it's going to be them limping (albeit pretty quickly, thankfully) to the state the game should have been in at launch, which isn't a terribly good look for the game either. At least if they pulled it down for a bit they'd have a lot more flexibility in terms of tearing down and rebuilding things that aren't working without needing to worry about breaking the live game completely.