And on smurfs: people will smurf because community is too small, everyone knows everyone. No way around it. Period.
Yes it is small community---losing the best part of the community-UNITY.
You don't see familiar faces that you enjoy playing with-can't trust WHO anyone is anymore.
New players are getting kicked because you can't tell who is new and who is smurf. Do you think that they will just keep trying?
If things were like this when I was trying to get into the game-I wouldn't have stayed around.
And I am sure we are losing out on new players for the COMMUNITY because of it.
You are right Quar I see no mains today-and so, if I can't play with people I know I don't play at all. That was one of my favorite parts of this game- familiar faces-community-now it's gone-fractured.
Think about it. We now have 3 versions of the game making the online community small enough already---why make it harder to bring people together?