Player Base Erosion

Recipe for an Ultimate Flask of Player Base Disruption:

1. Create a game where you must trade and group to thrive.
2. Fail to recognize people are playing MMO's to be social with friends, in addition to playing.
3. Fail to address [Removed by Support]-Farming and try to persuade players to change leagues solely for a costlier economy.
4. Insert the Dawn of the Hunt league into play, and run the player split script to make all old characters go to standard.
5. Watch players run with the carrot on the stick for a while in new league, and old league holdouts get bored and quit.
6. Rinse and Repeat for years and years until there are no players left.

Genius! Sounds just like the Blizzard model players were hoping to get away from in coming to PoE2. The irony here cannot be unstated! An MMO game which forces players to abandon their work or be left rudderless. Why not just make new builds and let the old stuff still work, too? It would give people an actual reason to hit the buy button on that extra character slot.

As is, this is all just a rinse and repeat season cycle to push new cosmetics and packages. At least let us all just stay together instead of forcing the Blizzard ditch and switch model.