Okay, you were right.

uh so it never had scrolling or stats? cause i played in beta and it was always about damage to a pretty heavy degree.. and people were always willing to shell out time and money for it.

standard RPG elements like I said. You had a very limited range of upgradability, and the impact wasn't really all that significant. Not like today where someone can hit like 900 times the amount of someone else at the same level.