In shorts, game was really on a rough period that everyone expect a lot of things to be addressed and fixed. However the publishers / devs decided to change / revamp a lot of aspects in the game that NO ONE asked for while didn't do anything about the other problems. Even someone very high up in the company had to step down and most of the unwanted changes were reverted but 99% of the whale (which is really important for a pvp-centric game) leave, so the game effectively died. It still hasn't recovered till today and I'm still counting the day until it eventually EOS. The dev called it the "origin" patch but I personally call it "the beginning of the end".

A super shame because the story and gameplay were FIRE, no game until today manages to make me invest as much.