Newest interview (abyssea was a mistake?)

[Zagen]

Thats the flaw in the system but make no mistake theres no other reason to have such a system and it is highly suggested throughout the game by mention from npcs and so on 'rare monsters' the very name Notorious Monster and so on (lotto spawns). The problem came about when players determined spawn conditions for these and continually attempted to get them, this does not change the purpose of the system.

This is the correct purpose.

Uh no. They werent meant to be rare, just a time sink.

You can tell yourself its because of "lore" but that's BS excuse to legitimize the time sink factor.

Edit:

If that was the case they'd just do what he said, make them spawn a lot and drop something you need a million of to get your item.

If you don't think that nms were meant to be rare you must be defective or something. Sorry, but at this point you guys are just getting ridiculous proclaiming something a time sync cause it takes time -.-

Look into the core game consents of any successful MMO even some that aren't successful and when you strip story out, rare drops from monsters that are hard to kill or spawn less often are for time sinks.