I’ll add my voice to this thread. I decided to play this game because I’m so very tierd of the endless un-fun grind of other games. GW2 sounded like the game for me.
My husband also bought it, he who had sworn against any more mmo’s because of the endless hamster wheel-ness /carrot on a stick-ness of them.
I’m so disgusted and disillusioned by game companies at this point that this move doesn’t surprise me but I wish it were otherwise.