A Little Pain with my Pleasure

[Klefth]

Could it have been as simple as the loss of experience upon death that caused the cancer?

No. It's this attitude people (mostly "casuals") have picked up where they want everything handed on a silver platter for them. It's always "I want X to be easier/faster (often synonyms of sorts in games)", "I'm paying, so I deserve the same opportunities as everyone" (often times without even trying), "this content is too hard! It's excluding some people!" (this one was the most common "critique" to CoP and therefore Sea), "it shouldn't be so hard for me to get X! Make it more accessible!", and so on...

I often think this sort of people are just playing the wrong genre and "trying to like it" so to speak.