Whee, considering things got out of hand due to horrible administration, everyone always sticks the bad image of a server in their head.
Get rid of the laggy NPCs(Which is already being done), and the crappy Graal 2001 ripoffs(which has been done) and you have a very good world. We're simply revising it to be an actual RPing world, which will succeed, whether you like it or not.
People need to learn how to accept change.