My Life As A Gamer: Don't Let The Irvine Company Deceive You

The Stupid Irvine Game Company released a trailer and a complete fake-and-gay roundtable press stunt for the new expansion to their declining MMORPG.

It is exactly what was rumored about for months: "In Case Of Financial Falloff, RELEASE DRAGONS"

For those who've been around the MMO space for a while, you'll remember the last time SIGV ran into this sort of issue, which was when their attempt at doing a What If? on their original RTS game premise as an expansion utterly failed so they cut it off prematurely in favor of "Oh shit, Demon Invasion RELEASE THE LEGENDARY ARTIFACTS!"

(Yes, I'm dancing around the company, the game, etc. as I am adhering to #BrandZero. Deal with it.)

The now-ending expansion--"Let's Go To The Death Realm & Do A Plot Where Nothing Actually Matters!"--has turned out to be just as bad a disaster as the What If? expansion was, and that was before the legal issues and the Death Cult coup took their toll on an already decrepit company.

Folks, I'm telling you that nothing I've seen has given me any reason to believe that the game will improve. Instead, I see them blindly attempting to repeat the Legendary Artifact expansion, which was the last time the game was any good or any fun, without understanding why what worked did work.

The company is now a complete cargo cult operation in thrall to the Death Cult. This company is fully converged and therefore no longer fit for purpose. (Well, aside from spreading the disease.) It doesn't help that the company is now purely reactive, counterprogramming rivals so reliably that this date was called when Guild Wars 2 announced their dragon expansion and Final Fantasy XIV announced their patch release date.

The previous conclusion stands: Do not give them your time, your money, or your attention- even if very cute anime girls play their games. Play something else, something clean.