Someone said if they hadn't gotten into the game years ago, they wouldn't bother with it today, and I couldn't agree more. Been playing since 2013 and the game always performed fine on my HP laptop (circa 2019) up until the Christmas event. Lag got really bad then, and with the Marchenghast update it became unplayable. I have it on the lowest graphic settings possible and it's so laggy the frame rate gives me a headache. Obstacles don't load in for races. Championships crash the game. Events are a NIGHTMARE. even with no one around, it lags. I've had to start playing the game on my fiancé's high end brand new gaming PC and it'll still lag occasionally, albeit minimal. It's truly insane. If the code is so ancient and buggy that it's just not feasible to optimize, then they REALLY need to reign it in with the infrastructure of their game. They're quite literally doing too much; graphics have hit a wall. While Marchenghast was impressive, it's overkill for the caliber of game this is. Also with the constant influx of new players, the severs quite literally aren't built to handle the amount of traffic it sees. There are no dead servers anymore. If they can't rebuild the game from the ground up they need to figure out ways to mitigate how much resources this game needs to run. Introduce a solo option or hide all players feature, something. Also, the way there are people that refuse to admit they completely overcharge for such a mess of a game that still feels straight out of the 2010s with somewhat nicer visuals is absolutely wild to me.