[quote=“Studs, post:20, topic:10866, full:true”] there’s clearly more motivation for them to introduce new troops as opposed to spending cycles to buff existing troops.
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You understand how unsettling that sounds? Purposely ignoring the aspects that no longer make money in favor of ones that do while claiming to be F2P is hypocritical and will cause a chunk of the most-loyal, longest-tenured players to leave
It’s a F2P game and they need to continue to generate revenue. How else do you expect it to work?
People like new things. It’s the classic prioritization of features over stability that plagues the entire software industry. I agree that it’s not good stewardship of the game, but it’s not surprising either. They’re not “purposely ignoring” existing content, and they have gone back and improved older content. It’s just a matter of prioritization.
Loyalty isn’t particularly valuable on its own. They can’t eat your loyalty, and catering to those most entrenched is a good way to drive away new players. Then the game slowly dies as the existing playerbase slowly shrinks over time due to fading interest and new distractions. They’ve got to balance maintaining existing things and creating new things if they want the game to survive and grow.