There's a very vocal minority out there that like the new difficulty, but this difficulty just isn't fun for everyone else. It's way to hard. Instead of fealing like my characters are getting better it just feels like they've been made much worse and now I have to invest significant time and money to get them back to where…
I put a lot of time and effort into the reputation tiers. When I chose to do it I believed it was worth the effort. Now it looks like my time would of been better spent focusing on other things. This was a very tedious grind back when I did it, and it's frustrating to see all that effort undermined. "Power creep" is just…
I'm familiar with the description and as you just said yourself the description has nothing to do with how it has functioned all this time. They should have made any adjustments early on.
It just got changed I didn't think anyone else would have posted already, otherwise I wouldn't have created a new thread. As for as "working as intended" it's been working a particular way for a very long time. Everyone has adjusted to it working a particular way without difficulty, this just pulls the rug out from…
I think this is just one of those situations where it's impossible to please everyone. I'm a lot more interested in action than long cut scenes, and I thought the action was fun. I thought it looked really cool too.