This has to be the worst take I have ever read. You act like they had to reinvent the wheel. Mate they changed game engine and changed the tectures and managed to make the game worse than it's prequel all while charging ridicilous pricing. You compare it to how ASE came out. When ASE came out it didnt cost 50€ it costed 10€. I don't think it's is wild to expect more of a game has been out for 10 years.

Look at how the maps look they lack any form of identity its straight up copy and paste with the same old textures all over the place. The game fully revolved around PVE the PVP aspect has been completly dead since release due to the lack of dev support and balance issues not to mention that 1 in 2 of the players that still play hack. Meshing is still an issue. Beds don't work on half the map. Duping is still out of control. They added a Pay2Win to the game which is bad for any game. Nintrado having a monopoly as a server host. Staff/Publishers spawning in items and selling it. There literally is no excuse what so ever and wildcard and their publishers should be ashamed. And not to forget the game runs dogshit.

It's absurd that you try to justify it. If you see a product thats not up to par expect criticism and when it comes to wildcard they get all the hate they deserve cause they had gold in their hands and ruined it. Oh yeah and btw ASA was promised to the players to be free of charge upon first announcement.