>Yes, you're missing the fact the makers of the change WANT the game to >be annoying because annoyance + perserverance leads to a feeling of >accomplishment. (It's similar to faternity hazing or being screamed at >by a drill sergant in boot camp in concept.)
Please speak for yourself, mr. psychologist

Annoyance has nothing related to fun and achievement and the "putting a lot of time in it" should be fun or people just leave. Maybe you like to rank to Hero alone or you like that one, who (as he said) printed all area list, explored them all, killed all mages and so on. If I should do such things, I will leave CF for sure.