Quote Originally Posted by Kensei View Post
Why was this done? Are you really thinking that slowing ranking up to a crawl will retain population? Because this sort of thing is exactly what made everyone quit. Considering the state the game was slowly recovering from I would think this was the last thing they would consider doing.
No that isn't why everyone quit. The battle system was cumbersome and the WAY you gained SP would dumb down the way you fight. There wasn't much skill in the battle system, lots of disconnects... there is a LOT of different reasons people quit. I highly doubt it was because it was so "hard" to rank up.

Plus they need to make people stay longer in this game... what better way than to slow down the speed of ranking up a little?