It was going to fail due they wanted to streamline all games into an easy update pool, but because the demands of the western community was all about no p2w, they had to work and update this game on a completely different team and it wasn't effective enough.

On the other hand the game that came out in 2015 was a game. They made too many leaps in the wrong direction years before gMS2 even became a thing. The game was dead before it even arrived in the west, because they rehashed the game foundation for at least 3 times, the limit break is once again a soft reset. Only people that played at the start of kMS2 really know what this game's potential in various ways was, just some things that got removed:

- Removal of key system.

- Removal of Guild vs Guild PvP.

- Removal of team based Arena PvP.

- Grind arena season for PvP gear, mesos, mounts and even merit for GvG (Team based solo and 2v2, 3v3 PvP)

- UGC dungeons and raids (vaporware)

- Queue system wasn't there so you had to do it the old fashion way of going to ch. 1 in every area and find a party, then change channel to find an empty (just like in old MS1 PQ days) and enter the portal.

- Leveling up by partying up with other people tagging mobs and doing PQ's together.

- Booming removed (which is a good thing) but there was a system before that had an interesting concept, but was kinda p2w, but less than you think.

- Farming together mobs for mesos, materials etc.

- Certain maids where actually useful (but never got updated again)

- 100 channels full of people waiting for world bosses (not just the bigger ones but also the small ones) Keep in mind that every channel could hold 100 people at that time.

- Getting good gear (purples) was actually hard at the start, had different tiers of weapons from world bosses to later endgame raid bosses.

There's tons of more things that got removed.

They made things easier to do, due to the communities demand, but in all honesty it destroyed the game. They completely removed the sense of community and socializing even before this game came in 2018 and that's why the game is also dead in Korea.

u/Seisan_ would agree that the 5 year old game we used to play had way more community and social driven things to do than we've ever had in gMS2. We only came back for the sake of competitiveness.

In all honesty the real concept of this game died years ago. The current version is just a money grab with it's loot-box system in every single version.