Thayos wrote:
EDIT: I said this earlier, but the real tragedy is that housing should be fueling the economy, not suffocating it. If housing were made more accessible, then SE could create all kinds of furnishings, accessories and sub-systems that would reward farmers/crafters/gatherers and stimulate economic growth. The way it is now, you've got all of this awesome content potential that's completely walled off to the vast majority of the playerbase... and because the economy is sinking so much faster than SE is lowering prices, that wall is only getting bigger, and the content is only becoming less accessible.
This is the point really, I'm not to big on crafting/gathering, but a few weeks before 2.1 I started leveling mining and had plans to also level botany in hopes that with housing people would be crafting/buying up furniture and that I would hopefully be able to make money off the raw materials, at this point I've pretty much given up on that.
I still feel like SE is still just playing catch up from all the problems they had at launch. Yeah they released new stuff to do in this patch, but for me, it feels like they didn't really release any "new' stuff to get. The new 4 mans don't give any new gear, CT should have been released before BC, and housing is unattainable for another 3 months for almost everyone but the few people who have the time to farm gold. Spin it how you want to but its true. I guess to me it just seems odd to release a patch with out a new tier of gear at the same time, as in raising the ilvl. Which is why I feel like they just did things *** backwards and now they are trying to play catch up.
After the patch I honestly considered quitting for awhile (and believe me I really really like this game) cause, for someone like me who has limited play time (as in really only enough time to focus on one class), its like really all they did was give you more options on how you want to cap your myth for the week. I'm really surprised that a lot of the more "hardcore" players haven't left, cause I would think that those people who were already clearing BC with no real need for myth gear anymore pretty much got nothing out of this patch besides continuing to run BC and gearing out other classes. It is all about fun though, or at least it should be, which is why I haven't left, cause I'm still having fun, but they really better pull something out of their *** for 2.2.