This server is free to play on. It's their rules.
Honestly, staff COULD be corrupt and RMT and make profit and whatever the hell they want. Someone is paying for hosting. They are providing a service, which they don't charge for. If they profit, that's their business. The fact that the server is so popular that there is RMT going on is a testament to how desirable this server is to play on.
You have no skin in the game. You have invested time into something that was given to you for free. Nobody owes you anything. They could shut down tomorrow and you lose all your characters and plat and there's not a single thing you can do. You have no contract. You have nothing at stake beyond your own time that you willingly gave for your own enjoyment.
If they started charging a monthly fee, then you have a right to bitch and moan. Don't like the end game? then don't play the end game. Don't like the server? Don't play on the server. You have no obligations here. Staff also have no obligations - they are volunteers - not paid. They owe nothing to you.
Take Ephi here - he says he spends 10 hours a week on this project. He works as a technical consultant at a large international firm. I bet his time billed out is at least 150/hr if he works with external partners - if he's an internal bill it may be even more. But let's say he may only get half of that. That's 750/week he's putting into the server. That's 3k/month. That's 36k/yr. What are you putting in besides complaining on the forum?
Don't devalue time spent. Don't pretend like you're owed anything, because you're not.
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