Originally Posted by
FelPlague
I mean they LITERALLY say in the very same sentence "but also we dont want people stockpiling gear for months to upgrade it"
Yeah, that would be super dumb, i dont wanna have to go back to item resoration and restore every single M+ item ive gotten since M+ was introduced, incase they might be good to upgrade, especially since at this point many of those items no longer are visisible in item resoration, and that would be unfair if players who kept their items got a bonus over those who sold useless items.
also they dont use a "time played" metric, cause those are literally useless cause people afk in games all the time. they use MAU which this has literally no effect on.