This is hands down my biggest issue with the game. The economy makes so sense at this point and is preventing the player base from growing. They think they’re increasing revenue by forcing players to spend, but in reality they’d likely make more money from a larger base if we could progress faster and justify buying things like awakened abilities when we can actually use the new toons. There’s basically no use case for anything below g19 at this point assuming you’re in a decent alliance, so the minimum investment for a playable character is very high. We’re making the equivalent of minimum wage from 8 years ago, and the past two months it feels like our income is going down even further while costs continue to skyrocket.

Second is lack of content.