Why is there so much hostility/dislike towards Renewal?

[Naruhodo]

My problem with Renewal is that they're controlling what monsters you hunt by greatly decreasing the exp you get from monsters too high or too below your level:

Increased Weighting of Level Difference
- Players are rewarded for fighting monsters within their level range.
- If a player fights a monster up to 10 levels higher than them, they gain a 5% exp bonus per level.
- However, if the monster is over 10 levels above the player, the player will be unable to properly damage that monster.
- If a player is over 3 levels above a monster, the experience of that monster decreases by 50%. Each additional level difference reduces exp by 10%.
- The level weighting occurs after party share is taken into account.

In my ever so humble opinion, **** that xD

I want to be able to hunt/farm whatever the hell I want, not what Gravity arbitrarily thinks I "should" be hunting...

It's one of the reasons I like RO so much; they dont control what you "should be" doing as much as too many current modern MMOs do.

e.g. In WoW they make it literally impossible to kill anything 5+ levels above you, and you're *always* on that same escalator scale to get the next best loot, level, etc in the same zones till you level up and move to the next few places that everyone in your level goes to, etc.


So yeah, I DO NOT WANT renewal.

EDIT: LOL I must have posted this at the same time as Nara, and we never talked about this to each other before... great minds think alike and all that jazz I guess