A challenge can be overcome. The final node should not be able to wipe out my entire inventory without any effort. Come on. This is poor design. I won't give another penny ever again if this is how you're going to tune the game. The money shouldn't be to buy the carrot on the stick, it should be to buy a faster horse to chase it on.
Edit: Oh, and it just plain takes way too long now. I don't have time for this. GW needs to be either way more fun (completely redesigned and not just the same thing over and over and over again) or way shorter. Not just retuned. Halve the number of nodes and scale up the difficulty more quickly - just not to this level. Christ.
