LMAOOO, all the people that complain about FOB shit are the ones that haven't even played
I know what you are going to say that won't flow away from these basic ideas
- you get more back by invading others, a lot more potentially
- FOB is extra revenue even if it just sits there
- level up your FOB and maintain it, what you lost does not matter
Guess what. That puts you exactly into Konami's game to want everyone online to participate and punish others who don't have time to continue nursing their game while they are not even playing the game. Not everyone who wanna play MGS and buys the game wanna play clash of clans.
The extra things FOB give is practically required and is balanced well to make you believe they are not in end game. You can theoretically get lv99 without FOB but that is practically unfeasible. Guess what this is? free to play game design philosophies that are designed to make you pay up as well.
Bottom line- TPP is not marketed as some free to play game, there's no place of these systems in there especially these changes are in effect 1 month after launch just feels like they are avoiding these systems to be reviewed by people that will affect sales.