"Loving Support" ~ WoTW

My MMO believes in change my friends, but it's not really change, that is more the same, very much like all other MMOs that are "pal"ing around with people who have on-line god/inferiority-complexes. Yet I swear, if you play this game, you will see and feel Loving Support for it.

Alas... It seems as if in (At least Lost World, correct me if I am wrong about Sanctuary and Heaven's Tear) Perfect World, that there is often what I call "Loving Support". There is a relationship between the players and the GMs that are very much like politics, no one is happy.

b:victory
SO, If the GMs one day decide that they were going to slash the prices of every single item by say 80%, give out free drops all across the world, bump up XP rates to 1000% and then spawn random FB bosses in isolated zones for people to kill, there wouldn't be the expected jubilation of all the players in the gaming world, but instead a torrent of complaints: "You devalued my gold!" "You made it so that I couldn't get to my quest because a FB monster stomped me!" "You made it so I leveled much longer than that newb over there" etc... while another side will cheer and say that the GMs are not selfish profit mongering ogre/trolls.

b:shocked
HOWEVER, lets say the GMs do the exact opposite and bump up the cost of all heirogram items and XP scrolls while imposing a 200% tax on telecousters to tax in-game "political" pundits out of business. There would be a raging b:angry-storm as people storm about how the GMs are corrupt and making the game not a F2P game any more and making it so that you actually HAVE to to pay to keep playing a game that is supposed to be free... etc... while others would say "FInally, now I am part of the elite class and it is going to take forever for newbs to catch up with me" and will hail the GMs as farsighted overlords.

b:cryBottom line: Free is not freedom... it seems as if the GMs are constantly in a balancing act, they have to balance the needs of the newbies versus the needs of the power-play elitist who drop $100 a week to say who they killed and how awesome they are at this game while pining to those people who are en masse and dropping maybe $10 a month or / $0 a month to play the game for their personal gain at the expense of the $100 a week people. Alas, to those people who are simply playing this game for free, there seems to be a tight rope that you tread daily between perdition and glory. You will never be as powerful as someone who rolls in their online-compensation, but hey, it sure beats paying for a free game that runs to the expense of 2 WoW accounts a month, who needs to be number one when you can be 1337.

And that is the word of the Week:Loving Support

-Yours,
Dr. Bean

P.S. feel free to correct me on any of these points, but please don't flame me if I seem to point out any people, this is generic and plus, since you have a god complex you will be able to easily infer I am not talking about you, but about the other people who have these egos that gravitate the universe around him while you are the sole hero in this epic that strives to break free from the mold.