That's it... Performance somehow got SO much worse for me in the past two weeks, and I didn't change anything anywhere. No new hardware, no updates on drivers, no new or worsened internet connection, anything. And what felt "fine" before, mid April, now feels like absolute garbage..
Or maybe that's because i started playing another mmo that actually has decent performance and that gave me better frame of reference.
I tried the PTS, absolutely no add-ons at all, clean install and everything, same stuff. That's supposed to have performance improvement, but it's still poop. No add-ons live vs no add-ons PTS, I have literally zero significant improvement.
What's the point? Last update, performance did get better but this time around it felt like nothing because everything else made the game worse.
Again, what's the point? Devs say they have too much server load with calculations, but they went ahead and added two new skills lines and a whole set of new items that can be used in combat. Here's some logic class: if you improve performance in one side, just to add a bunch a of extra stuff on the other, performance net increase is null. When your performance is crap, no change is the same as bad change. you need net positive performance increase urgently! And LOADS of it.
And we're still half a year away from getting final results on the planned performance upgrade... At this pace, when we get there, we'll need another full year of focus again. This is becoming a really sad joke. Jokes aren't supposed to be sad.
For the Alliance!