I have only played this once since I got it last month. At the time I was playing Suikoden 3 and that engrossed me more. Now Im playing Kingdom Hearts and I havent thought about playing this sadly.
One thing you should know there is there is alot of really dumb people on their official forums lol, but the good thing about it is that the game designers post on there and answers from time to time.
Its been about a month and a half since the last patch, and the new one will come out anytime. And the problem your having will be fixed before either of those dlcs come out.