Do the devs even play their own game or listen to anyone anymore?

[Immortal]

Surely in their mind they envisioned people shouting to team up for master levels and grinding the same mob for hours without bots... We know that people are too lazy for that in 2023.

[Alhanelem]

Surely in their mind they envisioned people shouting to team up for master levels and grinding the same mob for hours without bots... We know that people are too lazy for that in 2023.

Well this is the reason I say people wouldn't really enjoy a "classic server" as much as they say they would. After all, it seems the whole point of this feature was to bring back that feeling of grinding mobs for hours to level up. The problem is, some people would seem to rather cheese it by cleaving or paying someone to do it for them than doing it the old fashioned way. I have gotten parties to do so plenty of times but I can't blame people for wanting to find a faster way since MLs ramp up so fast it gets pretty discouraging pretty quickly.

We all spent literally years leveling jobs up to 75 back in the day, it's not hard to see why at least some players aren't excited to do that again with master level. Particularly when it's only stat increases and no new abilities/spells/etc.