What tilts me the most is that NCWest, despite not having control over the game code, as a publisher they HAVE TO have a control panel with stats, and a way to check players activity and other KPIs. They MUST have seen that the activity (and their cashgrab income) has plummeted down since the gold reduction, yet they did absolutely nothing.
If a company does something wrong, and that reflects negatively in their business, they try to fix it ASAP. NCWest should have told the stupid (stupid: someone who does stupid things) korean overlords that they lost 30% of the playerbase (my estimate) because of the recent changes and ask them to revert all that ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤. That should have turned on all the red alarms. But nope, everything is fine, no statement whatsoever, like it was intended and the negative repercussions too, like they are trying to shut down the game willingfully. The only thing left is putting a big popup banner upon login aksing you to please don't play this game and click that "exit" button below and uninstall.
Well, I went ahead and stopped playing the moment I finished with the new story arc, after 4 years of non-stop grinding 2x daily challenge 365 days a year, premium membership and a few hundred euros spent on this. Not regretting.
I kept visiting this forum and reddit hoping something changes, but they are destroying the game even more. This is hilarious. The whole company is hilarious. I hope they go bankrupt.