SE better do something or the game will drop dead

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not really. they got rid of half their payer base probably and are getting payed by the other half. financially it makes perfect sense. they merge servers so there will be less server maintenance and re-promote the game in the summer. SE is a business first so if they have the choice to have 100% players not pay or 50% pay they need to take the money.

How could they foresee even generally what percentage of the playerbase they'd be losing?