The question should be:
why, when somebody want to play only PVP have to do some stupid, long and booorig processes to obtain stuff? Isnt it main reason, including unbalanced amount of people on each side of gangs, why are players leaving? I think so. Some people hate this game, because they spend a lot of time by something boring (crafting, farming, gathering stuff). And you are returning back to crafting, farming, which is main failure of this game. For someone who loves crafting, farming its ok, so lets conserve this feature. But for someone who spent all day by getting stuff and then it loses 6 equipment in one 10 mins battle, because of FR, its just stupid, not funny and frustrating. Therefore people leaving (main group of this game are PVPers)!