It is my understanding that the recent changes to the game are to help increase its longevity, what I don’t understand is how they will accomplish this when the changes make the game less fun to play. I for one am playing less for 2 reasons. The first is that it is less fun, the second is dictated by the game developers who believe I should only be able to play 3-5 matches at a time or buy health packs. So I play less and may quit altogether. Still trying to decide.
I’m sure there are plenty of people who disagree with me and think all these new changes are wonderful. I have actually been thinking that maybe my problem is that I have been playing the game for too long. I have been playing since MPQ’s second month in business and I remember how fun this game used to be. Even when I was stuck in 2* transition hell getting my a** handed to me by maxed 3*s in PvP I was enjoying the game more.
I could be wrong (I usually am 
but I believe the the problem is in trying to have a balanced game. I am a music producer and I am very particular about things being in tune and have always strived for perfection. On one project in particular I was working extremely hard to get the guitar tracks in tune and I was so happy when I was finally able to say we had them near perfect. When I was finished though I found that I had a real problem, the guitars were almost perfectly in tune. They were so in tune they sounded fake. Moral of that long story is that where a balanced game may look great on paper, is it fun to play? So far I don’t think so. You can talk money making strategies all you want, what gets people to open their wallets is a game people truly enjoy and get emotionally attached to.