Yes, they definitely can. When they did it on chapter 3, even with this crappy behavior, people just didn’t do many word boss fights. I was running around the servers having fun killing them my self. And they were just a bit harder, not as hard as you say.
So they collected this information from live services and made world bosses marshmallows again.
The game needs to be loved by the current player base above all, because this is their main financial support.
When they decide huge changes, like inventory UI for example, they know that they will face huge frustration from the player base even if it’s for the best.
Now you’ll tell me, how come the new inventory UI is for the best?
Simple! In a well organized chest round you can empty a completely full inventory in minutes, just by opening each chest and press one button. You don’t need to search anymore where’s the freaking iron bars i collected, find them and store them. Now you go to the chest of metal bars, press one button and all the metal bars are stored where they supposed to.
It use to take me hell of time to organize and store, now it’s way simpler and fun. But not before i cursed them for trying to change my gaming habits
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Unfortunately my friend they have to please every “lvl” of player base. So doing things extra hard is not an option.