Ever since the release of marching fire this game has fallen so far i dnt think it's possible for them to rectify it. Gear stats made it viable to have different loadouts and character types rather than versing the same character; only beating them as a result of feats or knowing how to abuse that characters moves to win. There is no longer any skill involved, and progression is all but gone; unless you count grinding out hrs of your life just to change the look of your character... Any sense of achieving or getting better is an illusion as your character can literally no longer progress.. And at the end of all this what they did is illegal.. I'll put it this way: You go buy a mower. After several months (perhaps years if its well built/designed) the shop owner you bought it off comes around to your place, walks in the front door, strolls on out to your shed and removes the wheels and blades from the mower. He also lowers the revs till it can barely idle. He then proceeds to write out a check for "upgrading" the mower, which you did not want/ask for. He then walks out and leaves you with a broken product which you now have to pay for again if you wish to gain access to the rest of the "upgrade"; which will give you square wheels and whipper snipper chord for blades.... This is a common business practice and its going rampant in the gaming world as people don't realize they are being screwed over or they don't know its illegal. It has to stop, along with micro-transactions and using the public to test a "finished game"; which effectively replace the workers so that the companies don't need to hire/pay as many people to edit/test things. Then dlc and micro transactions; where you are charged again to unlock the next part of the game, then again, and again.. It doesn't stop, and people just accept it.. These scumbags are taking you for everything you got and you guys are just handing it over without question.. Don't buy into this anymore. Stop buy "AAA" games and revert back to the old ones that work. Just mod them and use sweet fx and you're good to go