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Originally Posted by
Methodical
At the current moment, I play hard mode almost exclusively because it has the feel of a group ironman mode. It is a community in and of itself; everybody playing it has agreed to the challenging XP rates and thus a mutual bond is formed. It is not a solo mode, and that's a beautiful thing. If you want to succeed you have to ask for help, there is a huge sense of teamwork and agreeableness and very little (if any at all) price manipulation or backstabbing. When shit gets this hard there is no time to be a dick. Our economy is near perfect, with so few maxed hard players there isn't a large influx of endgame items, getting a drop truly feels like an accomplishment- by opening the gates to trading with accounts who can max in a day you would single-handedly destroy that balance. I don't want mystery box spoils in the economy, I don't want blood money shop items in the economy. I put up with the high xp rates because the hard mode community and economy is worth it- if you let us trade with normal modes, hard mode will become a mode purely for the torturous xp grind and nothing else. Please reconsider.