Most of the pvp guys might have been as broke as my characters, but those players aren’t the ones that are the main problem, it’s the ones that own territories. The +30% gathering bonuses were an additional bit discrimination in favor of the pvp playerbase, that AGS felt the need to add in after folks had purchased the game, just to add insult to injury, and I was enraged when I found out about it.
New world has so far been run as if it is a game, rather than as a business, and the folks in charge have proven that writing a decent MMORPG is not the only skill that they are lacking in.
Every (sensible) business in the world understands that you don’t cheat your paying customers, and it is a sad thing that the folks running NW don’t know that.