Er yeah, I loathe the "special snowflake" (rofl) mode of questing in MMOs when you're clearly not and you're clearly not actually affecting the world -- that's what games like Elder Scrolls are for.
I still want to know why I can't stick a jam pie in Samael's face -- as an Elin, I think his attitude just DEMANDS a jam pie in the face.
Oh and instead of FIXING the "/e" command so it won't spam during crafting, apparently they've just turned it off.... this does not give me warm fuzzies about their programming dexterity for simple chat tool stuff much less the more complicated whatnot.