When the wheels were starting to fall off of the Shadowfail ripoff, that's when my faith in Rowan started to wane.

I understand that he probably inherited that shitty excuse for prying money out of the playerbase's wallet with minimum work going into the production of the paid content. Yes, he probably had a deadline that needed to be hit, even if he affirmed to have the power to stop or change things when the feedback was overhelming negative.

Where my faith disappeared completely with Rowan was when the update after Shadowfail was previewed and there was nothing added to that shitty fake expansion. Some goodwill could have been created if something as small as some new and decent loot was added to the Shadowfail quests. Or getting rid of the goddamn shards pay to go to a cocksucking quest, especially after removing the only way to earn shards for free without selling on the Shard exchange and syphoning the shards from players by not include a fucking confirm button for Daily Dice or Rerolling loot.

Instead, the only thing that apparently Rowan and the other producers learned about the Shadowfail experiment was that most players rejected the ~two updates as one~ expansion model. It's very reminiscent of the failure of the Cannith Challenge pack, where players were overcharged and the pack lost most of its value two updates later when the cap was raised without adjusting mat costs/drops for those additional levels.

So fuck him. In his dickhole. With a thorny rose. Rotating on a drill. Operated by someone with Parkinson's. Who's off his meds. While reciting dialog from Gilmore Girls. In Esperanto.

but that brought a tear to my eye.