Eiko-chan

Spoiler Warning: You're not. The "Destined One" is a lie.

That's actually the first somewhat convincing argument I've heard. There is something to be said for consistency, anyway.
Scroll up to his Currency post and read my comment on that (it's the most recent comment on his blog, so it should be easy to find); it should be easy to deduce from that what I think of your "Posi said it best" response.

Since always. While it might not seem particularly slow to you, I'm sure you'll readily admit that it takes longer to get from 30 to 40 than from 20 to 30 (and even that is vastly slower than 1 to 10). It does slow down at 30, because the increase in rewards does not keep pace with the increase in experience needed. It is especially noticeable while soloing, and I think that many players, and the developers as well, have greatly undervalued soloing of late.

"This is a stupid rule, which everyone should obey except when obeying it results in patently stupid conversation, in which case it should be skirted and flirted with, but no touching, because Big Brother is watching."

No, seriously, it's a ******* stupid rule. Are there any rules that get violated as much as this one? I'm betting not, and there's a damn good reason for that.

That doesn't sound like fun to me.

The Incarnate System has rewards beyond just moving on to the next level (of Incarnate Abilities)?

That would be my preference.

It's due in part to it being a puzzle game, because being a puzzle game is a large part of how it is innovative and well-made (I don't think the puzzles necessarily have anything to do with its humour.)

And yet Portal is viewed as one of the greatest games ever made. It's not like MMOs are unique in having access to the internet.

A more reasonable conversion structure - one that took into account the vastly lower shard generation rate - would be more acceptable. The specific implementation that exists is the objectionable item, not the generic idea.

And I don't argue against the argument "hey, the trials are fun and I like them, so I don't really see a problem" (I disagree, but it's not an irrelevant nor unreasonable argument) as much as I do against the "new stuff just isn't for you, so stuff it" stance.

As the Trials are tied directly and inexorably with the new ADVANCEMENT, what the rest of the game like IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. New advancement is "the game".

You don't deny that the Trials are different from pre-existing content; you deny that we should have access to the new advancement because we don't like this new, different content. The fact that the old content is still there doesn't matter, because the old content doesn't get us the new advancement. Until it does, it doesn't matter what the rest of the game is like when having conversations about the new advancement.

You (collective) would do us all a huge favour if you'd stop recycling the same old irrelevant arguments. Unless your argument in some way involves a (viable - please don't talk about shards and those stupid conversion recipes) method to obtain new advancement, it means less than nothing in this context.

You can't have my pony, Bill.

The last time you promised this, we got 88-shard-cost conversion recipes. Forgive me if I withhold judgement on your ability to understand and address the concerns of small teams and soloers until I actually see a viable alternative.

I tried telling people that, but they never listened.

Strictly speaking, if you get kicked from the league, you're not a member of the league any more. You don't get kicked for being disconnected (I don't think?), so the "part of the league" gets around crashes and such but doesn't prevent someone from being kicked and losing rewards.

I don't do this much these days, but I completely agree with Arcanasber - I mean Arcanaville.

Though realistically, you can tackle #1 and #2 simultaneously, because #2 is a problem for the community team, and does not require any time from your powers team at all.

The worst part of the Incarnate system is that people like you are becoming more and more normal.

Personally, I never asked for end game at all. Am I allowed to complain about it now?