Guild Wars 2

I thought the idea was cute at first, but then I started seeing 8 bit mini pets and back packs and fireworks, etc. While I tried the SAB, and thought it was boring and just not fun, that’s one thing. But now, all this has crept into the pristine, high res world of Guild Wars. The weapon skins have high res animations and detail, but all the other stuff is, imo, ugly, blocky, and low res. This ruins the immersion of the game, and clashed greatly with the rest of the art and detail of GW2.
The other thing that I find sad about this is that there is a huge amount of content in SAB. That seems like it required a great amount of work. While they did put forth a great effort to fix culling and introduced more rewards for badges of honor, things I really do appreciate the time and effort to get done, there are still a number of things that can be fixed with the existing game. These range from big things like skill lag to small things, like fixing mesmer speed buff so it stacks with other speed buffs, or being able to kick party members who log out or leave WvW.
I do appreciate and commend Anet for consistently introducing new content to keep the game fresh. I just disagree with the type of content with SAB and wish they’d focus a bit more on the bugs and little annoyances that seem like it might be easy to fix that have existed since launch.