You don't get why people are upset at all! You didn't miss the bullseye, you missed the whole target.
People are upset about mods for a whole list of different reasons. The big thing is they were poorly rolled out.
That's spilt milk. What do you propose. Have you got a time machine?
They caused an immediate imbalance to the game that they admit was discovered during testing,
Disagree. It caused an immediate change. Imbalance implies that modding certain teams made them much better than before. Still same teams doing fine, after modding. If there was to be an imbalance, we will never know. Because 1 hour in, and some of the players lost their %$^$
Everything done since the mod update has been mishandled, poorly executed, and downright unacceptable. The testers discovered a problem, and they released it anyways, and it costed people real money.
After they got used to it, the testers did not have a problem. The player base decided to lose its $%^#^% after approximately 1 hour, before half of them had even read the turotial.
with the addition of mods, there NEEDS to be more credits available.
Opinion.
They doubled the cost of maxing out toons
Double? Wait until you get 6 and 7 dot mods. More like a 10x increase, probably. But again, I don't see why this is good or bad.
This slows down progression too much.
Again, opinion. Acquiring and leveling mods is one form of progression, and it is a very fast one, at that.
If you are not progressing in your personal goals, why play the game?
Speak for yourself. What are your personal goals? And why do have them? And what were you going to do when you achieved them? Were you going to finally start having fun? Because a lot of people play this game to have fun.
And finally GW....boy what a mess.ill summarize with this. No mobile game should ever demand a player to invest 2-3 hours a day into completing a daily offering.
Multi sim. Sim for challenges. I think overall, time demand is less than ever. Now you CAN spend more time on a more challenging GW, which overall is more fun than autoing challenges. Just the time freed up on Sundays, oh boy! Major improvement and better than before, IMO. Also guild exchange speeds up gearing a little, letting guildies consolidate leftover gear pieces. And the updated/fixed "find" system is helping your day to day.
The update also fixed the foresight bug.
Good update, overall. IMO.