Sadly when i started playing 14 years ago, even then people were saying the game had started dying etc. And every day since, the game has a lot of features, ways to play, everyone are in game doing what they want or enjoy. Back in the day i remember you could sell or buy diamonds for 8 diamonds per for a long time, then prices had been going up and up and up sadly. Gear prices also went up and everything else as well. Prices to purchase diamonds from the game with diamonds also had been going up and up and the less and less we got. They treat items for sales at 50% off, but said items have always been at 20% in IS for years, so those 50% sales are really 30% off in reality. The game had slow down with players moving along, their lives had change and their priorities or economical purchasing power. We are in a wold economic crisis for more than 5 years, people had lost their jobs, health, food increases around the world has been going up and up, cost of living etc. There always been issues in game and some had been resolved or corrected and others weren't sadly. The server merges for me was so that people that wanted to play this game would gather and work together more and for the game to still be here. For me i haven't found a game since Runes of Magic that had so many features, questing, crafting, gathering, helping others as long as they help themselves as well, having fun, troll and being trolled, i had made a lot of friends in game, a few enemies, some have passed away and moved to Valhalla and some had remained rotting on battlefields but it was all their choices that got them there in the end. Always remember this is a game!!!! only a game to have fun, evolved, get frustrated, get better Sun Bro!!! LOL I miss Rustyx!!!! GM's that had moved on or disappear, but that's life. I will be missing this game and community when it is gone sadly
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Some ppl are still around 
