Giant2005

Thanks for the replies guys.
Judging from the responses, I am going to consider my quoted paragraph to be the reality of the situation.

I have to ask though, Rapthorne... Several hundred mmorpgs?

You obviously don't have help chat turned on while playing (or maybe the problem is more centered around the Freedom server and you play elsewhere)

Even if it was just limited to those situations (which I don't think it is), that is still a step in the wrong direction. Before the Invention System, such treatment wasn't warranted in any situation.

You are probably referring to the mmo with the highest number of subscribers. I admit that isn't among the MMOs I have played and judging by it's reputation, the player toxicity seems leagues more developed over there than in CoH. I do still stand by what I said, none of the mmos I have played (which the rules won't allow me to list) have had an atmosphere quite so bad as the current incarnation of this game.

I could also be judging it harshly due to it setting it's bar so high with the Pre-Invention playerbase. That very likely does make the fall from grace seem so much larger than it realistically is.

My bad, I assumed people would have read the notes before commenting. Here you go:
After the patch, just like a fine for a traffic violation or whatever, the currency I would normally be earning is being taken from me before I get access to it.

I'll play along.
On what grounds are you disputing it being a punishment?
The only potential argument could be the semantics involved in whether or not not issuing a rightfully earned reward is the same as taking it after it has been rewarded.

I don't know how it works in whatever country you are from but when I get a fine, that money comes from my wages automatically each week until it has been paid. The Emp merit fine too is coming from my wages automatically until it is paid. The only difference is the fact that I am never able to pay that debt. So I guess you are right, the term "punishment" isn't quite extreme enough by today's standards.

I guess that last statement also depends on whether or not you consider a government issued fine a punishment or not but I don't think I am over-crediting your intelligence too much by assuming you do.

That is kind of what concerns me. I'm not worried about people saving up Emps to sell recipes and make money.

I am more worried about them deciding it is easier to just spend a few hours farming up the Emps required to buy whatever recipe it is they want instead of paying inf for it.

Then again, LotGs and similar recipes that cost two alignment merits have been remaining constant in price even though the SSAs made them very easily farmable.

Okay it is limited only by the amount of time we can play.
So I guess our rl commitments and lifespans are limiting factors.

They are punishing us for running too many BAFs and Lams and not enough new content. Whether they follow through with the punishment or not, they have already threatened to punish us for our actions.

Yes this is it.
If those new trials are actually playable enough to have a chance of getting teams for them, the fact that you can get an infinite number of Emps is a very big deal.
You could farm enough to get the most expensive recipes in a couple of days.

I suspect prices might be about to plummet in a way this game has never seen.

Does it even matter?
They can cancel their changes and even announce a public apology if they like.
It still doesn't change the fact that they threatened us in the first place.