Trion Divides NA ArcheAge Fresh Start Server In Effort To Handle Launch Woes

I have enjoyed the streaming reviews and comments by QuintLyn on YouTube and appreciate this report. Post 3.0 update, I'd also add that Trion has noticeably increased the difficulty of playing Archeage. Granted, some items were fixed such as health and mana pots that regen over time, and they finally restore a significant amount of each. Other items were nerfed. However, trade packs have been significantly affected. Post-3.0 you now have to spend one Gilda Star to craft a specialty pack and you must have 30K proficiency to build a larder. Broadly speaking, Trion made it at least 15%-30% harder (and more expensive) to craft depending on what you're making. In fact, just about everything got more expensive. Several of us predict that Trion will open a cash shop to sell gold, gilda and other items to slow, if not stop, their financial bleeding on this game. Add two new races that everyone will want to level up (so they keep playing Archeage) with no level cap increase and it becomes quite apparent what the motives of this "update" have been. The mobs are all slight variations if not clones of already existing animals, monsters and broken androids. Sure, a few new things were added but have very little impact on the game play, mechanics and the community. Family quests now!? Seriously!? Now you have to buy a "Family Certificate" for one gold to add a family member! Hahahaha! See what I mean? It's all focused on money (e.g. gold). For me this patch is the last straw, the downward spiral of a self-centered company whose solutions and mismanagement are consistently detrimental to the player base. SOE did the same thing to the SWG community and it's happening all over again in Archeage.