pumkin wrote: This is a fantastic post (although you forgot Ragnarok). {..snip..} Seriously, the changes made in the past three weeks are just inexplicable. They make no sense from a game design standpoint. They make no sense if the goal is to encourage player loyalty, increase fun, and make a long lived game that people will play for years. If you want to alienate your player base, ring the death knell for the game, and create a feeling of hostility toward Demiurge in general, then continue on the current path. I really feel like we've been bent over and are being whacked with a stick. It really feels like a punishment. Like cruelty for cruelty's sake. I'm not being melodramatic. This is really the way I feel. I'm straight up stumped by the majority of the decisions made over the past few weeks.