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 They'd rather continue playing and feel fulfilled because it turns out that their earlier choices to play Build A or save up X amount of Currency B was wise.
 Chris' severe dearth of understanding (or maybe his and the consulting firm they hired which told them to price MTX out of the POE Trade range of 99% of non-whales...) has come home to roost.

 He's doubled down on this manifesto, and there can be no way forward, any longer. People are playing Destiny 2.

 Grim Dawn, and BDO, games worse than Cheap POE Currency Poe because there is no arbitrary (malicious?) impediment to moving forward with your toon and playing him the way you want.

 Try making a wander now compared to when league started and compare that to the comparison between trying to start a necro wickerman build and at the beginning of the league and now.

Chris refuses to acknowledge the player base wants to keep playing, and would do so, except it's incrementally harder now than at the beginning of the league.

And there are active road-blocks to continuing, those having been put in place by dumb-ass manifestos such as this. at time I truly wonder if Chris is a CIA plant, and Poe is a psychology experiment of some sort.