I'm too afraid that the "nerf to blazes or yank the skills right outta the class trees altogether and force players into the cash shop for items that do these things instead" antics of current Russian patch 1.7 will not only make their way onto the NA servers, but are a harbinger of more things to come in that same vein.

Astrum Nival nerfed literally every speed skill in the game so that their new mount would seem fast, and then made that mount run on cash shop food. So basically the only way you can move fast is to pay cash for it now. They also completely yanked the mana regen skills that multiple classes previously had right out of the game so players would feel forced to buy cash shop potions that do the same thing.

Hello! We can pay $15 a month for higher quality MMORPGs, and the devs don't suddenly make us pay more just to have the skills we used to have when we started! ROFL.

Yeah, sure, it's open beta in NA. But Russia's been running live since last October. They're not making beta adjustments there, they're majorly tanking the real, finished game. And Gpotato already stated that they can't prevent content from those patches from making its way to the NA servers.

All those poor sods can pray for now is a slow translation. ;) I used to be excited about this game, but it has totally fallen off the radar now. I'm not bothering to put time into characters (or money into that greedy, grasping cash shop) when AN could at any time yank more skills or remove more content and suddenly make it pay-for stuff.