Originally by: Uchigatana

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Want to add new skills? I have no problem with this.
Want to create new challenges? I have no problem with this.
Want to ADD to the game? Fine by me.

Unfortunately, what you have done is not ADD to the game, (in my opinion). What you have done is taken away from the players, or at least a good number of them.

Rather than give me new skills to work toward, in order to improve my character's abilities, you have given me new skills that must be trained in order to REGAIN the abilities that I had already spent many many hours to obtain, and which you have taken away.

This is not a positive action. This is a negative action. You have given little. You have taken away much... namely, TIME.

This entire endeavor, from the beginning, revolves around time. TIME is really what you are selling, and when you take from me what I have already paid for, it strikes me as somewhat dishonest. For example, a car dealer doesn't reposess your car while you are making timely payments.

Perhaps you think I am "over reacting" to something that is "just a game". Maybe so. However, in this case it is also a business. As a "customer" of your business, I feel that I have been somewhat cheated.

I don't normally write complaints such as this. When I am not happy with a "supplier", I simply stop buying from them. This is, in fact, what most customers do. I hope you understand that many of your customers will simply quit, without a word.

Where this game is concerned, time is money. I have paid for the months it took to aquire certain skills. Now I find that those skills are no longer what I paid for, however, for another $60.00 or so, (at $15.00 per month), I can buy myself back to where I was just a couple days ago.

Want to put the guns on equal ground with missiles? Fine by me. RAISE THE DAMAGE OF THE GUNS!. I have no problem with this.

For those of you who want to call this "whining", that's also fine by me. I find it more than just a little humorous how people like to WHINE about so called "whiners".

Great job CCP.

Star Trek Online sounds REAL good right now...

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