Some nice changes, but in my book its a little too late. Theres some good fixes but realistically it wont eliminate the grindfest at higher levels, and it wont curtail some of the inventive pvp "camping" in the sub 25 zones, and the fields of farmers. Ncsofts "blind-eye" approach works for some aspects of the game but we all know how make and break the first few months of a mmo are. You need to capture your audience and keep them hooked.

If hooking them means, the team puts in longer hours to pump out patches update content and keep the player base happy thats what you have to do, you gotta spend it to make it, and releasing slow patches especially at the start of a release is not the thing to do. Take a look at any current long term MMO's release over the first 3 months, a good majority of them had major patches/fixes/releases within the first few weeks.

Yes the game has been out over a year in the asian market, but western/euro gamers are a totally different bread. The game is beautiful and has an amazing combat system, which granted suffers the same folley as many others, hopefully it will survive, but the dev team are essentially the games linchpin.