The Nightmare Before Christmas:

 Horizon:

Fall Event had started, more Boosters. The price of Boosters had drop to 10% of the usual price, a lot of players are crying over the fact that they are unable to sell their stuffs even when they lower the price. They are going to reduce the price of Golden Magnifying Glass from 1M to 500K, guess some smart ass spend all the gold on it just to get good seal as AGR are cheap.

From the look of it, the economy is not going to recover for another few months. To make thing even worst is that some players claimed that there are only about 6 active players, so they will either have to do a gold balance or merge the server to save the economy.

 Aphelion:

Halloween Event had started, this time they Nerf the event with only 3 quests. To make thing worst, the new phoenix anti cheat system is causing a lot of log in issue for a lot of players. The worst thing that happen with this patch is the Nerf for HP and Damage just to cater for PVP players, now all the PVE players are having a hard time killing mobs.

I had try killing mob on the Halloween Map and found that I can't even do it with full buff, since the rewards for the event are not as good as last year I will just give it a pass. The server had been going down hill since they Nerf the AOE Pets, the amount of players drop from 600 to about 300 during the recent DDOS attack.

The new patch for 220 level cap is a joke which seem to change private server toward official, and the official server seem to go the other way round to become more like private server. Overall official server seem to improve more with better events, if private server is not going to restore back to the glory of the time before they Nerf the AOE Pets they will be dead in no time.

I also realized that all my P2 Pets are gone, not sure if it was due to the recent server crash or new patch. The previous ticket I raise for missing P2 Pets for my pet merchant had not been resolved and was closed for no reason. It just keep adding on to the issues and a lot of players are not very happy about it. I guess it is just Karma, when a lot of players are not happy and start to curse the server it will came true when there are enough curse.

So it is still a wiser choice to make the players happy if they want the server to survive long, they should start giving players the freedom of choice instead of keep adding more and more restriction which make the game harder. If players had to spend so much time trying to level, farm for stuffs or complete quest, they might as well stop playing and do something better.