Critical issues that need to be addressed

[Silren]

I feel you OP, started this game in ancient times (2014), I saw many friends and people leaving the game or just get bored, myself included. Though I still resub once or twice a year I simple can't see myself playing this game regularly again. All your points are true but honestly I think they should change so many things to make it enjoyable again these days for all of us old arse veterans that I doubt they will do anything at all. 8.0? Probably just some kind of classes refresh presented as the "new incredible change", yet even if it turns to be true we will get the same boring and predictable content which after one or two runs you'll pretty much drop. Housing? Destroying your players creations was always a stupid idea in my opinion, played a lot of mmos and even the most trash ones had better housing system than this one, on the technical and system design aspects side of course. Still I hope that they will make this game more fun to play in the future, tho I hope it since 2018 so I don't expect much at this point, perhaps they will surprise us with the new expansion who knows, time will tell.

[MuraBoy]

Net code, server infrastructure, remove input delay on skills, etc.

It's unacceptable that this game still has a server tick rate of 3.3 Hz (0.3 seconds) while even WOW, an MMO from 2004, has 20 Hz (0.05 secs).

[RedLolly]

Net code, server infrastructure, remove input delay on skills, etc.

It's unacceptable that this game still has a server tick rate of 3.3 Hz (0.3 seconds) while even WOW, an MMO from 2004, has 20 Hz (0.05 secs).

If I had to pick a single upgrade from everything we suggest, it'd be this.