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You mean 3 years, not 4. Plus a few weeks.

2:36:05 - Gosha

Aight here's what we'll do. I'm torn between doing my job and meming around in a quiet forum, so I'm opening the floor to community suggestions.

What does this criminal deserve?

Congrats, you’re part of the problem.

Out of the many sandbox games there is out there, EE is one of the few that rewards player experience, effort, time investment and persistence into elements that improves creativity and are not purely numerical.

Think about Minecraft and Mario Maker, everything comes unlocked right on or are extremely easy to unlock.
The same occurs on other map-making games like Terraria and GTA V.

On EE otherwise, most stuff (including legacy content) was rewardable by the player effort, such as energy, magic, campaigns and contests.
Being and old player or a player that passes a lot of in game time actually rewards you for that, allowing you to add more mechanics or better visuals to your maps.

Wasnt it good to feel like you are one of 1% of playerbase that had the opal magic block?
Or the 5% of players that had the postman smile?
Or you could build an incredible map because you bought 500 placeable portals while most players had about 10?
Or how that little grass detail of the 2011 spring pack made your map visuals feel much better?

For me, thats why i kept logging to EE until its last day, to spend energy believing that the most content I had, the better maps I could make.
Other sandbox games pretty much kill that sensation right on the start.