They care about players playing dungeons and working together to earn loot, but not the bots constantly manipulating market prices on the black lion trading co. Of course that consolidates the wealth amongst a few players and keeps the demand for gold high, so they wouldn’t have a complaint.
On top of this they make you pay for each trait you unlock, up to 3 gold for the newer ones. Now we get 40 levels of grinding before we can diversify our characters like in every other poorly designed mmo. I’m sure some players will buy armor boosters from the gem store to make up for the nerf everything got.
I’m going to stop playing out of protest. I loved this game, I purchased gems and leveled multiple characters. I want to have faith in the developers, but this update is too greedy.
I’ll keep checking and will return if they fix this, but for now I’m on the look for a new game to play.