That's not completely true. As an old pwi player who never spent a penny on gear, I managed to become endgame. The thing about PWI as a PvE server is that you CAN farm gear, but it requires blood, sweat, and tears to achieve. Here, it doesn't. I believe that's why you find so many people staying in official so much longer. The gap between starting and end-game is ridiculous, as compared to here where it would take months to achieve decent r8. Oh, and about squads... when I was gearing up finding squads and supportive factions was easy. Then again, for a lone player it would probably suck, but pwi's intentions is to force teamwork. Well.... Outside of cash shopping your gear that is.
That's not completely true. As an old pwi player who never spent a penny on gear, I managed to become endgame. You CAN farm amazing gear, but it requires blood, sweat, and tears to achieve. Here, it doesn't. I believe that's why you find so many people staying in official so much longer. The gap between starting and end-game is ridiculous, as compared to here where it would take months to achieve decent r8. Oh, and about squads... when I was gearing up finding squads and supportive factions was easy. Then again, for a lone player it would probably suck, but pwi's intentions is to force teamwork. Well.... Outside of cash shopping your gear that is. I do agree with your points, and I myself have had "ENOUGH" PvE to last a lifetime.... Even makes playing other mmo's difficult now. I mean, in the end... Private servers don't last very long for the primary reason that we exist(the irony). We pump out player after player handing them more than pwi ever would. Epw imo has lasted this long because it always had something left to achieve, and would still require effort... But eventually, all private servers will fail eventually for the one thing that spawned the creation of them. The want for things much faster.
people stayed on official longer because they invested truckloads of money and their mindset was about not abandoning their investment they can't get any return on if they abandon the serversimple farming here gets one leaps and bounds further than it ever could in pwi.. it does not take much to get very good gear here so the idea that we need things even easier is horse shit
It's more than just rolls. It's the community. There's no point rolling stats to pk when the "pk" isn't even any fun at this point, and before you say "What about all the pve'rs?"... Well if I wanted to only PvE I'd have stayed in official. Another reason is our lives, which always take priority over games. These times are difficult and we will always find ourselves busier than we should be. Most of us just don't want to dedicate our time to this game, and would rather use it on something worthwhile... Like securing success in the future.Besides, I quit this game for that exact reason. At this point, I just look occasionally at the forums to see the nolifers still complaining and insulting others, while building their ego's because they have nothing in life going for them. Keeps me entertained during my college classes.
Newer generations have lower percentage of gambling addiction,because more and more people know that the house always win.
