and yes b4 i get quoted and called a cry baby , i realize some of you have been here a very long time and things used to be harder with no instances at all , i feel you , but you now have the plat to start a quick group instance without giving it a moment's thought
You won't be called a cry baby. In fact, in all fairness, it's newcomers like you that get hit hardest by these sweeping changes. We understand your pain, and empathize with you.
Keep in mind the change was made for 2 reasons:
1. ) A zillion dead floating remade instances were causing server instability and memory leaks, which brought down the server's entire performance and caused a lot of aggravation.
2. ) To punish the bot farmers and ppl abusing the instances to chain respawn zones after the juiciest of the content had been quickly killed.
The change needed to be made for that specific reason (#1). So it kinda *had* to happen regardless, and thats a good thing.
Sadly, it does little to nothing to achieve the second goal, since raising the price is something that punishes the (obscenely rich) botters and instance abusers who have the most cash anyways.
It would be like punishing the upper class in a state by instituting a 20% sales tax on everything (gas / food / smokes / servers / consumer goods / etc).. Yes, those earning, say, $500,000 a year would be pissed their apples at the grocer went from 50 cents a pouond to 75 cents, or filling their gas tank went from $35 o $50.... but it decimates those earning less than $30,000 a year to suddenly be footing a heavy bill for all of the unavoidable necessities of everyday life magically being 20% more expensive.
So obviously if the change was made just as a kneejerk reaction to punish the wealthy, it's a complete failure. But it's a change for a hardware issue and server stability mainly, and in that it's a huge successs.
And a big thank you to Hunter for upping instances to 72 hrs from 24, it was a very welcome and nice compromise.
And this coming from a guy who lost over 400k today to lost group/guild tacvi instances. Tacvi is a famously unstable zone for instances and booting 150k every time they magically poof is steep, but meh. Having 72 solid in T1/T2/T3/T4/ldon/etc.. it's a small price to pay overall. I understand both points well.
And if he wanted to halve Tacvi instance costs (cough), i wouldn't object.
