The cartel chip thing really was the final straw for me. I cancelled my sub the day you announced it, runs out in June. We can all argue til we’re blue in the face about whether this implementation has merit, but it doesn’t matter. The fact is, you let players believe (for months) that it was one thing: dinars. You even called it that repeatedly. Then you rug-pulled it, bait-and-switch, whatever. It’s not dinars, it’s BLP. Which fine, that has a place, but that’s not what you called it. That’s not what you led us to believe it was. You can’t lean on implied language and expect players to read between the lines, when the plain language you use has a different meaning.
Now, you refuse to listen to your playerbase when 90% of them are telling you the same thing. Not to mention most of your “influencers” as well. Your attempts at providing reasons for your choices are wholly inconsistent with your past (and current!) actions and/or illogical to the point of absurdity. For some reason you can’t just be honest with us and tell us it’s just your own arbitrary feelings about how this should work. Why are you letting hubris and faulty logic guide your hand when your players are, in great chorus, telling you the opposite? “You think you do, but you don’t.” Ring a bell? You’re going to claim to be concerned about players having items too powerful for the content they do going into the next tier, but then throw the Annulet, Cyrce’s, and now this 11.1.7 belt at us while apparently pretending you have no control over tuning of S3? Is that supposed to be a serious argument?
Anyway, this bad faith approach and even worse attempts at explanations have killed any care I had for the rest of the season. Well, that and how you’re drip-feeding 11.1.5 in an exhaustingly transparent attempt to string subs along. Sorry, not interested. You duty is to make us happy to pay you for the entertainment, not feel bitter, resentful, and taken advantage of. When the mask drops and the monetization of my time spits in my face, it turns me off. And others too I’m sure.
And Nightfall, which sounded awesome on the roadmap, is complete, absolute slop. Part of me wanted the mogs but… no, what a tremendous waste of time. You managed to make something even less engaging or interesting than Siren Isle. Congrats? At least the Isle had some interesting lore tidbits. Speaking of lore, has anyone watched the TWW cinematic lately? Where is that story? Where is that heart? Where is that grandeur and scale? It all disappeared as soon as the campaign ended in 11.0. The A-plot has completely ghosted outside of a couple blink-and-you’ll-miss-them moments in cinematics that move the football less than a yard.
So I’m raid logging these days, because I just don’t care about anything in the game outside of my responsibilities to my guild anymore (for the record, we’re 2/8M so far). I figure two months is enough heads up to have given my RL that I’m gonna be out. This is like early BFA, or all of SL. I cancelled then too. It was the same reasons. Slop and hubris. At some point, I won’t renew. Who knows, maybe it’s this time. My interest is certainly low enough and my Steam backlog is pretty big. Anyway, bye.
that’s how I’ve been coping with how they come out with a new patch or expansion, less frustrating playing that way for me. But do what you feel you have to, everyones tolerance levels are different, 
