It is a shame that we can't comment on announcements directly. More so since @Green Storm appears to be let go at the latest budget cut and we are left without any pal at NC's office - again.
also this will be the bi-monthly february patch which been delayed already twice, again delayed by 2 weeks. not sure if this
*chuckles* accessible to all? Top10's are crowded by the same person(s) who gatekeep rankings with a secret hongmeng technique. that is just lazy shifting pvp cheaters into pve cheating, hence if one would be able to break pvp content, pve ain't probably any more difficult.
and yet outfit chances are abysmal... even if you can do it with 6 or less people. it is only the outfits that are hard to obtain, and this challenge was tasked in an event before. sad to see one which was lost during time.
This needs some clarification: Yes - top whales aree and will continue to pay good earned cash. Basically speaking 20% of people are funding 80% of the game. While not entirely accurate for older games like BnS, the gist is that even on a declining game those who did spend alot will continue to do so. [funfact an even older game which was already past its time is still going strong today] so as long the little server cost is met, we won't have to fear BnS closing.
Yet this trend comes with a tragic one can easily foresee: People will grow older. Less time equals more need for cash options, which will eventually hurt f2p players and is the main reason of all "events" where BiS items are getting thrown around. Yet if you can look at clan rankings now [hence game randomly decides to stop working] you will notice some names missing. Even whales are declining since the new content is too easy to clear for them, yet to hard for the 80% who can't afford to bill in their paychecks.
"a lot" of money also is an understatement. BnS is the least income for NC. now we could always debate if every1 should invest more money and less time, less money and more time, more money and more time or neither. bottom line will be in NCwests' hands and atleast for now that is something they can't work out either.
that's for skipping mega soulboost and rushing iteration 4. at some point we got too much content too fast. then we got ue3 CM on ue4 with invis entities which needed to be blocked AND YET it was the community from the 2 now inactive but major clans back then who provided cheats to make the CM work. THE COMMUNITY that fixed the game, without any payment....
by now anyone would charge. back then we might have had some who would've done it voluntarily. like providing NCwest with login art. playerbase is so much more talented and we used to have a voice.