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Not all that glitters is gold, and not all that changes is progress.
No. Everything that changes IS progress. It is merely whether it is positive or negative progress.
But the point is valid.
Yes we should expect constant patching and modifications. No amount of testing can prepare the game for exposure to tens of thousands of players and all the cunning tricks they can get up to.
Also like any military campaign it is always planned to fight the last war. They came up with ways to combat the macroing and exploits that were used in EQ. Unsurprisingly to evryone except SoE the devious little toads who write these things have found ways to work in EQ2.
Add to that the fact that there is an inevitability of breaking something else the moment you fix something and we have this to look forward to for a long time yet.
They are fire-fighting. It is inevitable and not particularly hard to cope with. They always say "down for an hour" but are often back up in less than 15 minutes.
An uncharitable person might suppose that they had the same godawful memory leaks on the serverside that they have so kindly given us in the client forcing a daily reboot.