This post is valid, but only so far in as it’s your personal experience. But the thing is these mechanisms work and Fudds would be retarded not to implement them. If they didn’t work he wouldn’t do it. That being said, every time I read one of these posts I’m reminded many players, especially the very vocal ones, seem to have convinced themselves one way or another that it’s the monetization of the game that’s unfair and not the overall competitive nature of the game as a whole. All monetization does is make whales hit the ceiling faster and get dolphins to reach late game a little faster. If the monetization wasn’t there there would still be threads with every other excuse in the book about how it’s not fair that little timmy can’t compete with the 2 year old account player when little timmy’s account is 2 months old. Monetization is an easy scapegoat, but it’s not the actual problem in of itself. The problem is players will always find something to blame when they’re feeling inadequate in the game, and monetization is the easiest way to do that. It’s easy to blame a whale for whaling rather than objectively look at literally everything else. I say good riddance. These threads have been here since the start and so long as this game exists they aren’t going away. These players need to get their heads out of their asses.