I wouldn't be surprised GREE's trying to jin up short term sales to possibly be a more attractive acquisition target?... Last few months started showing no customer support or automated responses to tickets sent, no solution other than "Sorry, we cannot do anything, but thank you for giving us your feedback..." type of responses. No more mods here, admins or devs have to come out sporadically address something then disappear for days or weeks again, awfully run myriads of events after events - that doesn't sound like a healthy company culture even if you don't play this game, just look from the sidelines... I don't know, but I stopped buying gold few months ago, it's clearly my choice, I just don't feel being treated fairly anymore by being overrun by incompetently created glitchy events... I'm sure a lot of players still buy a LOT, especially being lured into idea of some day to have to spend less if they have each hit as double-points...

But that carrot on stick...

...They can start releasing more triple strike bonuses.... and when those come up to 100% - quad-strike and so on... Ah, and that idea of one day have to spend much less - is postponed again until maybe soon... And you keep buying to be competitive, to be strong, to be relevant... As per ToS - they own everything, and you [we, the 'renters' of their content] are just supporters of it by paying for stuff if you wish to 'advance' in the game more than others I read their ToS, or most of it, and after couple events with items not received due to system errors, and tickets going to abyss - I decided to stop being a paying supporter... Am I wrong? I still cruise along, but just for scarce fun, and am really sorry to hear other factionmates who still pay, their frustration is really high, but their addiction is apparently higher... That human willingness to compete, to be 'better' or 'stronger' is soooo exploited by this game, it's like if you wanna see how weak you are in your inability to resist vanity - get into MW... REALLY get into MW, with passion, then you know