Im not sure about RoM. I played it for 8 months and really got bored. Its literally AFK auto game. Well, I guess iRO aint different at this point. People AFK kevel in TIs and popular maps. I meant, RoM is totally P2W because to be truly competitive, you need to get biweekly 1% ATK and MATK. However why be truly competitive when RoM is almost a solo game as well. I dont think or even see it as a MMORPG.
And for Genshin, I watched my friend played on streaming. Its even worse than RoM.
But in the end, it comes down to perspective so yeah.
It's really because of the marketing and how the ROM economy works specifically for SEA server. Why I'm playing iRO if I farmed 100m zeny and basically can buy nothing valuable. It's not the best game or everything, it's simply the game give what I want. I'm not in P2W/top rank players or anything so being top is not my reason to not playing iRO.
I spread the iRO hack news and my friends don't even care anymore. I asked the one who got ghostring and maya purple card when he's quitting iRO and he doesn't even care being hacked or not.. Well, this guy is richer in ROM with GTB card etc now so can't blame him...
^EasyAntiCheat was the tipping point for the maintainers of ROPD/Ragial. They are unlikely to come back (although not impossible, bots are still around all 3 servers).
That's the drama right there. Ragial can't get the technical support from other botters so they quit.