You are right and I agree with you, there could be a lot more of TP stuff indeed.
I may be wrong but from my point of view IMC can’t touch anything game related (such as adding queue features, improving UI, developing a better engine and so on) this is up to kToS and Mr. Kim. But I’m sure that they can handle by their own bugs like rank8 skills crashing the game, cinematographic bug which made the party to get stuck in the place and other ones since those weren’t in kToS or jToS or they had it but fixed it as soon as possible, yet iToS needed a couple of months to fix that.
I’m guessing here, but if iToS doesn’t have this stuff like kToS or jToS is because I said before they want exclusivity. So eventually this TP’s items will end in TP shop but bugs will still be there.
While getting those items they could be fixing known bugs (the first one coming to my mind is the unredeemable hoglan voucher which has been present since july) but they aren’t either.
So while
You’re right and this is another discussion, it’s pretty clear that they are more interested in those slowly coming TP stuff than fixing and improving anything. Each week patch is about the same and you can check it in “news” section, everyone can check that section by their own to prove that I’m not lying and being aware the same way that a lot of people is that IMC cares about $$$ more than the game is a real fact.
Definitely you are right in your whole post, but remember that kToS have this leticia saving cube which gives the chance to get a practonium, essential item for rank 8 content which can be obtained just once per char and that’s only if your cube doesn’t expire somehow (user not caring about it, power cut or any other reason).
And as you said, items with 8 slots may result in 8 high leveled gems obtainables through gachas, probably this game will end like black desert.