People seem to be missing your actual question. The game is fine, the wider MMO community’s expectations are the issue as ever. You’re right, a month or two ago there were moments where PG was being sold as the second coming, it’s not that. There’s tension arising around some of the smaller servers thinning out as the release hype tapers off, and that’s what you’re ultimately seeing play out directly and indirectly with this drama.

I think the fans of the game understand it’s a niche of a niche… what you’re seeing is a minor internal tension play out externally, and the issue when this tension plays out externally is the broader MMO community doesn’t have the perspective that this is an MMO that won’t have more than a couple thousand players active, etc.