I agree that many people here don't realize the dire straits the game's in because it's actively losing people faster than a p2p MMO of its class, as a free to play game. While those people used to check up on updates 3 months ago, they have largely stopped. What was once fine as a casual break while keeping tabs on the game has grown into forgetting all about it for many ex-players who are now truly EX players.

Summer was going to be tough on this game. 1.18 is not enough to bring the game up to P2P. It will need a stellar 1.18-1.3 with no major mistakes and tons of hour-cranking content. Rift is behaving like WoW2 as well as it can and is making no mistakes. There are a ton of great games worth playing coming out.