5 Art Slots & Locked Arts- An Alternative

There are many games that 100% let you swap items and utilize your inventory while in combat, many MMO's do this, so the premise in and of itself is not out of the ordinary.

The difference with this game of course and hence why I generally agree with you is because it has morphed in to something else entirely from what was originally anticipated.

Players have always been able to swap gear, while in combat' due to a change in battle circumstances necessitating a change, but they should never have really been able to swap items with the premeditated goal of harvesting and stacking passive and active effects that the game wasn't able to cleanse from the player post removal.

That has always been the real problem and while I sympathise with players that might have spent money building a library of artifacts with the sole purpose of swapping, there has to also have been a part of them inside that knew this day was probably coming.

I think in an ideal world you'd probably give some of your biggest customers who have purchased a large number of wolf tokens and artifacts a few freebies as some sort of compensation to smooth over the rough negative edges of this change, but who knows, it's also a business as well and the truth is the terms of service pretty much put us on notice that things in game can change on a whim.

We don't actually own anything in game, not artifacts, not wolf tokens, nothing, we're just paying for a license to use it.

They do reinvest into the game… People keep looking at the old EG7 report as if it’s black and white. Either they don’t invest in the game at all or they reinvest everything the game makes back into the game. That itself is not how business works. They have to reinvest into the game or else there cannot be any new dlcs or new anything. They may take funds from dcuo and invest in other games, but that’s literally business.

When a company owns many financial pipelines it’s common practice to take profits from a successful source and fund either a new project or a project that the company believes can return the profit. No company will stop funding the primary source of revenue.

Yea, I wouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t get coding/tech needed to stop the lingering effects.