The problem is your early adopters and strongest advocates are the ones who really put their hearts into MMOs, hence them knowing a lot about the genre and being powerful word of mouth. If they go, so goes the nation. I'm sure it hurt the game somewhat when that Kripp guy bashed this game, maybe not severely, but people who follow him more than likely took his word for it. The more content pioneers you dissatisfy, the shakier your foundation will be going forward.

And there's a big stretch in logic from sole entertainment to logging in once a week to get your charity 300 myth and spend a few hours in coil. Not that I would know because I saw this storm coming and bailed before myth gear caught up to coil bosses. I wonder what kind of numbers we'll have when Sylx comes out, and the guys who have already finished the more difficult Turn 5 get to twiddle their thumbs for another half a year.