Again, the only person actually giving you a reason to fix this situation (and a few others). As Xtopher already stated above, 3 stats, you say thats nothing? Well his breakdown pretty much explains it, though i have one thing to add. As a player (referring to the GMs) the actual community who play the server, for one would know better in what makes a difference and what doesn't.
If you're trying to say a 3 stat difference is nothing, I can bring in all the statistical evidence and ingame tests to prove, you are wrong, this one sided argument with no proof or a logical explanation is totally invalid, I don't see any sort of comment where a developers actually looking at both sides of the argument. As I mentionned before, per full guid (76 people) a leader has to provide a GVH to each an every one of them, 19% of the population! Ok, lets say we have about 4 full guilds which are active and regularly seen in every woe (whether it be european or american) 19 x 4, thats 76%. 76% of the population of our community were robbed of their tokens with a depreciation value of 70% of the GVHs value.
The average player does not even have enough items to trade in for an IMP. Okay, fair enough. This is indeed a slap in the face. It's like nerfing a balloon to give 10 stats, thats not a balloon, thats just a rucks effect with a balloons sprite.
Free time you say? People sacrifice their free time to actually buy anything here, free time, the community works to get 150-300 tokens to get a GVH (free time, farming and what not), just to find that their hard work went to loss because the item was nerfed. If there is going to be any sort of compensation, Im very sure that we would like our hard work and free time aswell as 70% value of the item back. Don't expect no one to just take this in and let it go, we wouldnt argue if we weren't dedicated.
I've been here for almost 4 years and have never been so de-motivated and unsatisfied. Don't expect people to now just buy stuff that they are unable to afford, you would have already demotivated players just by this.
Those are my two cents.
Yours,
Mel/Simplicity.