To be honest i am losing my addiction to raid, im the sort of person who gets hooked on stuff, i was hooked on muds as a student and had to quit completely to concentrate on my degree, i got a bit hooked on guild wars too. During lockdown i had to have chemotherapy so had lots of time on my hands due to shielding and was initially hooked on this too.
But the arena, and the poor QA has pushed the addiction to this game out of me, it isnt just the deliberate paywall on the arena its the bugs that are just ignored for months.
I pulled chancellor yasmin and as i dont have a kymar or madame wanted to try her with mountain king in arena, the sleep seemed potentially good with MK hitting the ones unslept.
Her AI is a complete mess she just blasts the buff strip on cooldown ...so lazy and such awful AI. A quick google search shows the bug has been around for months and months as well unfixed. Yet when a 3rd party app came out they fixed it in a week as it threatened revenue.
So with the paywall, the impossibility of catching up with vets to be competitive and the awful quality control i feel no desire to spend cash and even less desire to play now, its purely the time sunk cost fallacy that stops me uninstalling. I dont mind spending cash on games, i spent 200-300 for cosmetics on GW2 to support the game, but definitely wont spend on this.