Portal farming is the symptom, not the cause
The only reason people farm in Portal is the ridiculously slow weapon progression that requires at least 1200 kills for full attachment unlock for every gun. It is several times more than the previou...
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Many of the challenges are too difficult or downright impossible, but people farm regardless of whether progression is fast or slow. As long as farming is faster than just legitimately playing the game, people will have an incentive to do it. Because why wouldn't you seek the path of least resistance?
Portal is supposed to be more than just bot farms. It's that simple.
True, so speed up weapon progression and cut bot exp totally would be the right choice, but DICE decided to play deaf
They didn't decide to play deaf. They specifically acknowledged the issues with challenges, but they also mentioned that it would take them some more time to work on it.
