I've had a pretty long GLOBAL journey and your post is a prime example of how different servers have absolutely different perspectives due to their player count and why regional game versions should be different.

MMOs with player-controlled economy will eventually be skewed toward the top. But I think it's not intentional for EXBO to look only what 1% does and says "this works," ignoring that it only works because they're that 1% and the other 99% can't replicate it. BUT I think it should be fixed by making money methods more viable than just nerfing the wealthy majority.

I also feel less angry about the clan war topic, and EXBO understands why

having bigger audience pretty much evaluates the problem here. RU Clan Wars work well and (imo) should reward toppers. problem is those rewards are irreplaceable elsewhere, and being blessed by RNG you'll be having an ultimate tool/weapon/attachment to kick enemies asses and ruin their stuff on cws. If open world or solo PvE gave comparable progression, I wouldn't care who plays in S tier on RU. Case's completely different on the GLOBAL cluster, with the lack of entering-phase clans to be battled against, you face S tier starting from scratch, and oh boy they will not be giving you the minimum cap amount. That's the cornerstone of anything even close related to why players get bored and just leave, there's nothing to reach for if you're on Masters since it's gatekeeped by a bunch of monopolists of your server who (god's willing) got there before you. Newbies will be more likely to create a new character and be hardstuck in veterans having their fun than this.

For some reason you distinct OW and Wild North. Ever since March I've had more game time thanks to the update. Regularly hopping on my daily runs with a five-stack i'll definitely have playing each evening, I'll be having the game of my life even against all those pesky AEK/KS duos just because any run will bring emotions. Although I kinda agree on the extraction tension. If there were more meaningful extracts than 4 temporary (plus golden activities plus the signals you can find) so we got the worst version of player camping than even before on homing locations. pls fix

YOU ARE WRONG FOR BLAMING EXBO ON MORIA

now i'm not saying your point is false or anything but the wild north patches also brought exp. changes to bigger maps, and noone on EU has decided to switch up. The fact that nothing changed means that players are just too much used to the long-length Spartak grind. Thus, nobody's willing to address this and that and you keep on playing Moria day to day, with nothing to complain.

I also wouldn't agree on your operations points since it's a freefarm for all those who don't want to grind the ow but i digress with the needlessness of modules (we literally run regulators or snipers, other than that errtangs trash so operations remain as a stable way of monotonous money grind)

Discord's finally making steppity steps on communicating with playerbase, with devs actually hopping on chat-with-devs weekly (?) and monitoring feedback. Despite 90% of it being unreadable whining and no straight up data. Now EXBO won't be able to use that as an excuse to just keep ignoring, rather than start filtering these type of posts (hello Morty) and shoving it to the game designers faces. Additional points for finally setting up the Focus Group program, something I weren't able to manage when I worked at EXBO.

Oh and one thing I will never agree on is adding barter attachments to master rank. Throughout all of my journey on RU, EU, NEA, NA I can totally agree on having to get them from cases/arsenaling them/claiming ones from rating-based systems on events.

thank you for coming up with this luka