Is it just me, but i think the new loyality-shop is a big downgrade?

- No Way anymore to gain additional Character-Slots for loyality.

- No Way anymore to gain additional Storage for e.g. Valencia or Calpheon territory. Investing there was particularly worthwhile.

Is there still a free season ticket every three months? And I don't mean that rip-off from the loyalty shop. And by the Way:

- Patrigios pocket watch: Haven't we always received Patrigio's pocket watch for free at the end of the season? Now we can spend extra loyalty on it ... Dunno, but it somehow feels more like a scam than a feature.

Used to be, before never-ending "seasons", that you could "timepiece" a season character's combat exp, skill points, and season status (and Tuvala gear) to another alt, which let people experience each season with two alts if they wanted, and only needing to level up once.

Now, the "pocket watch" only applies to non-season alts, sets level at 61, does not copy skill points (?).  

I "time pieced" every time. I don't think I have a use for the newer pocket watch.

PA never was focused on player enjoyment. Instead, they only look to create more inconveniences just to sell the 'fix' through the cash shop, constantly finding new ways to squeeze more money from the players.

Didn't they remove additional Character weight too?  (NOT Family inventory weight, individual characters).

....yeah, I get that over time they've reduced the weight of soooo many junk items that a lot of peope will claim Weight isn't as big a deal anymore.  But there's still a LOT of weird quest turn-in discrepencies or item "Exchange" functions with certain NPC's where you can't use those features AT F**KING ALL if your weight is over 100% and the only way to do some of these things (espcially Barter exchanges) efficiently was to either save up and buy all those extra Weight increases .... or go full Wallet Warrior in the actual Cash Shop

The main example I'm encountering is the Storage manager on illya for example will exchange Barter items for Blackstones but most people can only do 2 exchanges at a time because it's basically impossible to get much beyond 2k weight and now that's become much much harder with the loyalty shop "adjustments"

they actually increased the amount of character weight you can get from the loyalty shop tho

Is this locked and Capped per account now though?.  ...I mean as long as it's there...   But I sure can't SEE it myself anymore on any other characters like I used to be able to.

( I guess the bigger problem is just in the exmaples themselves of the quest turn-in rewards and exchanges.... PA needs to recode that so that any physical weight items the player can't be given when overweight...would be placed in that region's Capital city storage just like furniture and gardening plots are anytime they're relocated by the back end System)

yes, it is a huge downgrade