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Right before Lightfall's trailer dropped. Or, rather, I felt like there was hope up to the point I saw the trailer, and the public's reaction to it. Witch Queen was a marked improvement in the PvE sandbox from what the game had been since the shittening of classes, at least, and I thought maybe we'd be at a place going forward where the game could be fun to dick around in with some cool raids/dungeons. The seasons were disappointing, but the core gameplay was in a good spot. We finally started to have at least a LITTLE bit of content in the game after Beyond Light dryfucked it six ways to Sunday, too.
Then I saw the trailer and realized the tone of the game was only going to get worse, and even major expacs were getting to the point of "shoehorned major pop culture reference to cast the widest-yet-shallowest net possible" levels of degradation. The final cherry on top of the shit-cake was when they announced during Seraph they were going to make ALL the armor mods available because they were going to completely revamp (read: neuter) the systems to """improve""" them going forward, I knew it was over and there was no fucking way in hell anything was ever going to get better ever again.