I have always been one of those very positive people who has had fun with the game month after month. Even when many people around me were complaining i was the one who saw the good intentions behind a lot of changes and was hopeful for the future of the game. Often times this community is extremely quick to judge arrowhead and have knee-jerk reactions to things that are completely reasonable. Trying to look for any reason to hate arrowhead, often resorting to making fun of them for extremely weird and nonsensical things that you wouldn't blame any other company for. Like outsourcing /concept art/.

But some of the recent balance/design changes show the dev team has some fundamental issues with their vision of the game and what the community thinks is best. Devs obviously have a vision that they should execute on, but their current vision is just simply making the game unfun and encouraging people to run meta options and harming build diversity. (Build diversity is the main selling point of this game due to how many items there are.)

This game is incredible. But if the devs keep balancing in the direction they are, this game will very likely become horrible to play in a few years. As such, I cannot recommend it in it's current state.