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Your absurd wall of text can be summed down to one phrase: get with the times. It's so obvious that you stopped playing at least 4 years ago, so all of what you said is simple nostalgia bait rather than actual criticism of the current state of the game.
1. Raids are still hard. Maybe not YOUR old raids that you remember them, but the current relevant ones still are. Blood Lord and Irukul was 5 years ago. Get with the times.
2. Most of the chars you describe still work the same way. They still require timing and precision or else you'd eat dirt. They are just more streamlined than they are before. Get with the times.
3. FUSION RUNES. This was the most ridculous point. Get with the times
4. Newer players were even more punished back then than they are now. You literally cannot farm some endgame scrolls without a semblance of gear. Even if you are the god of Vindictus, you cannot get past the stat wall of hero Inversed Blade. Remember correctly, then get with the times.
"After the premiere migration..." This is obvious where you stopped playing.
1. NO ONE wants battles where you have to actually lose money on consumables and pushing the 60 minute time limit to finish. Back then in the era that you were playing, it'd take months to progress a pubic hair. Time is money. Understand what time is and then get with the time.
2. The chars are more closely balanced than they were ever before. The chars didn't lose their uniqueness with any revamps. Learning a character didn't get any easier, only more streamlined. Get with the times.
3. 1 set of endgame armor is an easier goal to strive towards than the maze of cloth, light, heavy plate. Getting a +15 is hard in every era of Vindictus. There are legitimate points regarding this topic that I want to give more details about, but you are not informed enough to bother. Get with the times.
4. Gear intricacies? In an MMO? God forbid. Even so, it was more convoluted back then on what to do and get than it is now.
You worked more as a slave in the era that you were playing than now. There are ways now where anyone of any gear level can farm for money.
Speaking of money, do you know how currency work? YES, you DO use your hard earned money to exchange for items you need. Why do you care what the seller has as long as you got what you want with the gold you earned? Do you know how the world works?
Get with the times.
5 "Youtube pros"
You're clearly only looking at videos of people who stim to make this argument. I can go back 6 years to the introduction of stims and you can see them use it. There are still insane solos now. Search for any Neamhain or Balor solo. Get with the times.
Conclusion: This thread has become nostalgia bait to steer the bias a certain way. Even OP supports these out of date points. If you wanna stay away from Vindictus, do so. Don't just randomly come back and make out of date "criticism" that shows you just reading patch notes, if at all, rather than playing the game over the years.
I'm mad at you but even more mad at myself for reading your stupid essay thinking there'd be any good points in here. Get with the times.
