Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
The reason to trim ARR, and the reason they DID trim ARR, was to increase new player retention of people going through that. New players are probably less likely to buy skips anyway compared to people with alts who don't want to bother with it anymore.

Whether ARR 'needs' any further trimming after what they did, I don't know. I haven't gone back to replay it.

But if you get a player to buy a boost, okay that's a one time purchase. If ARR makes someone quit however, and making changes would have gotten them to stick around, you keep getting money from them longer term.
Yep, a player's first impression is the most important. Many new players probably don't like the idea of paying for the game then having to spend even more money on boosts to skip said game. A good new player experience would retain more players, and players are payers in the long run.