Either way, explain Chat. Again, which came first?
Im just shooting from the hip here, without doing a bunch of research digging into changelogs, but PE (with chat and Traz) released maybe November/December ‘13 and GVG right around the corner in Feb ‘14?? The years might be off, but they came together in a span of a few months some winter way back...
Wishing Wells *may* have been released, but like SoKs, they were so rare and hard to find that alt worlds were made of pure boredom to actually play them and Diamond farms were born out of doing the tutorial for that initial 100-200 diamonds (then, you were forced to build that bronze theater thing with those diamonds when starting a new world.) Once past that, if you did, the diamonds came from the rare quest reward, or it was push to the ages with those particular quests.
The diamond farm, RQ/UBQ strategies and a lot of others I’m not thinking about came much later, as far as widely known about. There may have been some players that figured out these things, but they certainly didn’t share their secret(s).
Cosmic Raven’s guide on heavy questing may be a good indicator of when doing RQs started becoming widespread, but again, not really sure without hunting down some very old posts here and BETA.
Much different game then, mind you, as all of this was pre-arc and pre level 10 unlock, so even though Chateau was present, you weren’t getting much to sustain a viable strategy until
@Stephen Longshanks level 80 virus!
I've seen more than one claim that this change (and every previous change to the recurring quests) is causing people to quit or consider quitting. That lends credence to his claim that HQers haven't discovered the rest of the game, if they're willing to abandon FoE over it (whether or not these claims are valid or widespread is another question).
