Originally Posted by
blackmesa
Also, there's a big difference here with real life analogies in that this isnt real life. They are selling solutions to boredom they created. This whole world is an artificial construct of Funcoms making.
They could have just made leveling more fun and nerfed hecks, or they could have upped XP or droprates to help keep old players around who don't want to do the grind again.
And before someone argues that the grind is easy, or that there is a ton of content, just remember that it isn't that way for everyone. There are some 320 levels in this game and insanely low drop rates on many things. There are quite a few un-fun parts of the game, re-leveling, token grinding, vp griding, and more. Any one of the grinds may not be "that bad" to do once, or may have even gotten better, but after 10 years there are a lot of grinds/time sinks in this game. Dont expect any of that to change when now they see it as a revenue stream. The fact that all of this stuff is still a grind is no one's fault but Funcom.
We're supposed to be paying to have fun here, not paying to skip the not-so-fun parts.
Selling VP/XP/Token/Buff packs/Etc is a broken promise.
Incidentally, they've also managed to piss off the vocal pvpers who like limiting access to ofab as well as the vocal pvmers who want more access to ofab. That takes special talent if you ask me.