wow, to al those who are saying "you knew the risk, you should get nothing"...
Yeah, I/we knew the risk, but such a drastic change to the system is unfair to the players!
Everything's changed now...
The stuff I already had tiered through the old system is suddenly less valuable and less unique!
The stuff I lost I may never see again, and now nobody loses their stuff anymore!
To put the old system in play, let people "use it and lose it", and then say this losing items system is necessary and spread a rumor about that fabled tier replicator that never appeared (effectively convincing the community the system would remain as is)... Then, without ANY warning!... So drastically change the system, devalue already tiered items, put tier upgraders pretty much outta business, and toss out the need for a 2nd item and chance to fail... it's entirely unfair to everybody who has tiered anything in the old system (and that's a lot!)
Sure, everyone can tier anything now... but if your skills are crap you lose a lot of mats...
So MA is basically saying...
"Screw the tier upgraders, we want all the peds for us! Everyone, go! tier! TIER!!! muahaha"
oh and...
"Oh, your tiered items lost value? Don't worry, we're making lots of extra cash now, so it's ok!"
I'm not thrilled about the idea that everyone can now tier everything, MA's taking the value from players who earned it and payed for it and they're putting it in their own pockets!
BOOOOOO!!!