[Scoper]

Because of hacks and exploits, Era has been shut down multiple times over the past year..some of those times were for close-to 24 hour periods. You like your friendly little hackers? Screw off, they're not all nice. There's a difference between 'cool effects' and blatant server destruction

I can say we have the ability for a lot higher quality content, sure. The content itself comes from the developers who use it. You think older servers were better? Blame better staff, or your own bias.

You're right. The shell is important. But not as important as the game itself.
So, since the game carries a greater value than the shell around it, updates that increase the value of the overall game content but decrease (and again, this decrease is only YOUR opinion, so from an objective point it's hard to even argue it's there) how pretty the shell around it is should be totally acceptable.

Since you haven't really stopped being you, it's pretty obvious you're not going to believe that you're wrong here. As such..there's no point in arguing this. This thread should be in general discussion or something anyway