Thinking about this for a while and wondered about the process of making changes to the game. When I made a new character, I'd run around and grab badges for XP, Merits, and the accolade. Often wait until 8th or 9th level to hit atlas park, kings row, and echo atlas/galaxy. Could get a level out of it, 20 badges, the accolade.
Then someone changed the game and those badges stopped giving XP. Perhaps something thought badge xp made it too easy to earn xp. We don't want anyone to level 10 in a hour and that should prevent that.
But the point is, how did the decision to make this change come about? Does a random dev just get to make changes he wants to do? Is there a committee that approved it? I feel like I might have missed a poll about it.
For those who want to reply reading this: IT IS NOT ABOUT THE XP FROM BADGES.