A controversial topic: Is it time to make items scarcer or cost more?

[battlewraith]

13 minutes ago, Ukase said:

Sure, I might get a level 53 Accuracy SO. But that's not really what I'm after. I don't play to get what I need. I play to get what I want. There's a clear distinction. I don't mind jumping through a hoop or two to get it. But I'm not going to grind for weeks/days/hours to get what I want. 

 

A 53 SO? Dang that's rough. There's this rich dude that keeps telling me that all I need to do is play the game and it's like raining merits. There is no grind and nobody cares about your build and everything is wonderful. Sounds like you're not buying it either. 

[Greycat]

16 hours ago, Excraft said:

 

Well, yeah.  I don't disagree.  That's what I was getting at.  All I was saying is that it's not a huge chore to recreate a character on the Beta server.  You don't need to spend "hundreds of hours" playing it again and again to get back to whatever level progress you were at.  You can recreate any character at any level within a couple of minutes.  No need to even transfer it from a live server.

 

For many of us, there's more to a character than just the numbers.  Again. Beta gets wiped. Someone who *plays on beta* for whatever reason now has to recreate the characters, recreate the SG, hope anyone they played with feels like recreating characters on beta, re load up his AE (I don't *believe* beta shares the AE database with live, for obvious reasons) and the like.

 

And the comment that started all this was basically "play on beta," not "transfer a character." The two are different.