Criminy

The only new stuff in the UI I noticed is the favorites bar and the timer bar in the top left for the dice. Since the favorites bar doesn't update unless the player adds to it, I'd guess the culprit is the Gallagher timer. It would be a waste of resources to have it constantly check if the time limit has been reached or whether it should show visual bar progress and I doubt they would have coded it ike that in the first place. They probably just reached the limit on what they could have on the UI at the same time and the timer pushed it past limit too much. I'd also wager a guess that they were fully aware of this hence the very tiny non-intrusive size of the timer itself. Seems like a conscience effort to make it as minimal as possible.

It isn't rng that gives players incentive to quit, its item destruction. Weeks of play time gone in an instant. It has no place in a game like this so why is it there at all? Money. Toss some 'runes' in the c-shop and boom! Illegal gambling for kids and no one cares (yet).

Old iRO had a very similar enhance system and it also had item destruction, except in iRO you could walk out of the shop and buy a replacement weapon for dirt cheap from another player's stall and try again. In this game, your weapon breaks and you either better have 100m sitting around or start farming seals for a month. Day>Month. Vindictus' enhance system benefits no one but Nexon's majority share holder. To be blunt... it's probably the scummiest f2p practice out there at least that I've seen.

The consequences for failure could easily just be a going backwards 1 +. Paradise Stones were over 300k each yesterday and you need how many to make a +15? Rates could easily be adjusted or the materials increased (unnecessary imho)... but that would close the door on that gambling for kids thing mentioned earlier. The sad truth is it's probably going to stay like this till everyone quits and they shut the servers down. $_$