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This. A thousand times this. If I was a dev for this game I’d be terrified of introducing any new content outside the norm if I saw how some people reacted to things like eureka.
Adding new things is good and really isn't the issue. The issue is more or less on how they add it. This is something I would have hoped they would have figured out by now but its showing they never had and probably never will understand their audience at a global level. A mix of releasing new content as a beta test and trying to fix the damage in its aftermath due to adding in things for advancement in said content is generally a bad idea. With no safeguards in place each new piece of content puts the servers communities at each others throats since by design the content creates two different groups.

Eureka was advertised as an old school type of static camp zone. Which is all fine and good. Sit at a camp, chat and beat up trash monsters until a named monster spawns as an added bonus. Some people like it, some don't, and that's okay. So if I'm not mistaken, relic progression was put into the zone. Enter the NM Train for faster leveling and faster resources. So now you have two groups fighting it out. The ones who enjoy the content as is vs the ones who just run around and gobble up NM's to speed up progression. Since this was the way the content was designed, neither side is right or wrong in how they tackle it, but it does create arguments between both sides.

A and S rank hunts are another good example. You have the players that think they're server wide events vs the players that view them as an added bonus for being out in the world or something to work for with friends or something to try and solo to see how far they can push themselves. Same as before, despite SE themselves saying hunts are first come first serve. Safeguards are not in place. So by design neither side is right or wrong in how they tackle the content and thus arguments between both sides begin.

This all ties in with my very low expectations of the game just cos they've shown me they just don't understand things on a global level and instead of learning, they just keep making those same mistakes.