I don't see it mentioned here, but I think one of the worse things with the upcoming changes is not just the AE xp nerfing, but the true reasoning behind why they are doing it. They can claim all day long it's due to performance problems caused by it on the servers. But the truth is, they had to have some way to make it more appealing for people to buy the level 85 characters that are going to be available in the marketplace rather than just getting a character power leveled to 85 in a couple hours. I mean come on, this mass killing has been going on for years, and they are just now getting concerned with how it effects the servers.. yeah right.
So yeah, if you had not heard, coming up within a month or two, you will be able to buy any level 85 class / race you want on the marketplace. No one knows for sure what the price is yet, but it's guessed that it's probably going to be around 3500 station cash. So essentially for about 30 dollars you will have a level 85 character with max AAs (assuming you are gold subscribed, 45 if you are starting fresh on a new account and need to subscribe to gold for one month).
This is also the reason they are doing away with the auto granted 500 station cash a month for gold subscriptions. They originally tried to make it so you had to buy an item worth up to 2k each month but there was to much outrage over that, so now they are making it so you have to claim your 500 station cash each month. So they are hoping people will forget and not just get a free level 85 character every 7 months.
All of these changes are really about nothing more than money for SOE, not improving the game, or the state of the servers.
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