You have brought up a few valid and interesting points.

First, all too often game developers will do things that don't make sense to us. But it doesn't always have to make sense to us. We don't know what they are trying to accomplish and what they have or don't have to do it with. What they are doing could be positive as in adding new content or it could be negative like to stop cheating, scams or something in the economy that is driving inflation through the roof. You probably weren't here for all the threads begging OOO to do something about the ce prices. Well, maybe they did. It is disrespectful to try and make them stop what they are doing to explain it to you. It's not something I would expect. They have a job to do and will be going home to their families and games as soon as they can. Just the same as we do when we punch out on the time clock. But I will let you in on a little secret, OOO has been known to give in and reply to (reward) those who have become obnoxiously rude and disrespectful to them and other users.

Second, the "unstable condition", the gambling...yep, they introduced gambling on a site geared towards children with no safe guards to make sure no one under 18 is gambling. I don't see any good here and I won't even go into how I feel about the system or being made to grind "Alone in the Dark" or Vana hundreds and hundreds of times to get the thousand or so crystals I need to heat a 5* weapon to level 10. They doomed us to tears with that one.

Third, bored to tears, "making it less enjoyable", "change is for Three Rings folks making more money", this is a common mistake many game companies have made in the past, are making now and will continue to make. If the games not fun, people won't play it let alone pay for it. Pay to play players support the game and free to play help make the game fun bringing in more people, some of whom will pay. But if you break the game and no one is there, no one will come. If they do, they aren't staying to play alone. They will look around, see no one is there. Most will see the nastiness left behind on the forum. They run. Greedy game owners who think we are playing on their personal possession fail to realize that when they went public and asked us to buy into their game they effectively made it ours too. They feel they can do whatever they want to their customers and the customer has to like it or leave, with the attitude of we don't want you. If you don't like it and don't hand over more and more cash, as they demand it, they kick you out because they turned you from a good little pr machine into a bitter gamer who is negative and no longer worth your weight in pr. They now have to damage control you too.

Forth, the damage control. "I have no idea how to tell if the person replying is another user with his own opinion or a staff member." You never know the true identity of those you meet in game either, do you? I'm not going any farther on that topic.

Now this all sets up to have a bad ending. We all know sites that have closed following the above pattern. Some who never changed things through the process but they were just trying to make large amounts of cash real fast. We would have made purchases on if it wasn't so expensive or if the purchase weren't worthless. We do the math and say to ourselves, $5.00 for a digital gun or tree that may not be here in a year, you're out of your mind. We again feel the urge, click to make the purchase, see the price and tell ourselves no. RIP NORD-died December 31, 2013. (No staff, no bug fixes or updates, hidden content open for all, a hackers delight, keep your children way from unprotected sites.)

OOO's is unique in how they operate. That forge system came about because they wanted to make a game and allow, even encourage, muli-accounting. They tough this was a good idea. That is would be easier, cheaper and better than trying to control cheating. They failed to foresee that if you give people an inch, they'll take a yard and stretch that into a mile. So they corrected that mistake and in the same sweep they catered to customer demands. The demand to remove mist and allow all to play for free. The same people who think they should play for free, play on the test server and have the right to tell the developers how the game and their business should be. Those who think 10 to 15 staff could ever possible read the feed back of thousands. Those who...
I'm rolling on the floor laughing over this one. Two and a half months later and I'm still laughing. Those grown adults, with homes (mortgages) and families who are professionals running a legitimate business, just allowed 12 and 13 year olds (who want to play everything for free and have no intention of ever paying for anything) to tell them how to run their business.

As far as Skyguarder, ignore him. He was once a good friend and a great forumer. But he has become tainted by all the bad forum etiquette around here. For months now all he's been doing is forum trolling. He will read every topic in every sub-forum and he looks for the opportunity to flame, poke and show his coolness by making others feel bad and look stupid. He has been known to intentionally and recklessly hurt others. He hasn't posted anything positive in ages. There's just zero value to anything he posts anymore. (Yes Benny, this is a wake up call. And don't stalk me ingame to talk about it. Just look at what you've become and do something about it if you don't like what you see.)