the grind is whatever. i can farm. i can gather. i can sit there making Popberry wine and stacking mats and filling the bag for an hour. that part is normal. the part that gets me is finally having something worth moving and then running into rep again like seriously? again?
like i am literally looking at my own inventory thinking okay let me sell this or move it before the price gets worse and then i remember sell needs rep, buying needs rep, and withdraw is 1500 which is the one that keeps pissing me off the most because what do you mean i can earn stuff but i still cannot properly move it out unless i grind some second stupid number first. it is so backwards. i already did the work. the wine is sitting there. the mats are sitting there. and i am stuck doing account chores.
and then the banker quest comes in and somehow makes it even dumber because now the game is basically telling me to spend tokens on a Coin coupon just to raise rep. literally who thought this was a good idea. so i grind to make value and then i burn value to make the rep number go up and then maybe after that i get to do the thing i wanted to do in the first place. ugh. that is not progression. that is just the game wasting my time twice.
and the fees are a joke too. even when you do unlock stuff the rep still reaches into marketplace cost so it is not even just can i sell this, it is how much extra crap do i lose because my account score is not pretty enough yet. somebody else lists the same thing and gets cleaner fees and less friction and i am just sitting there getting punished harder for the same item. so now every time i open my bag it is not even nice seeing the stuff in there because i am already thinking okay can i move this now or is the game gonna make me do more rep nonsense first, do i hold the wine, do i wait, do i go farm more, do i go do banker crap again, do i just leave it there
that is what makes it so annoying. not the farming. not the grind. it is getting the reward and then the game acting weird about letting me use it. honestly why do i even bother opening this app