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I am not in the business of lying, so I will allow that it was exactly 42% of players that were 141st circle or higher at the time of the last snapshot that was published.

Nor are "capped" characters even really in the discussion. There are what? Six characters past 180th? A few of which recently quit (or "took breaks")? This is endemic of the Simu situation, where the people who press the upper echelon get moved goalposts and platitudes, developmental delays and virtually anything but what they're asking for because there is an abject fear at Simu that when people achieve their goals -- hit skillcaps -- they will quit. For good reason: it already happened to the instance that allowed AFK botting. But this is never admitted to. Failure is never admitted to. It happened with the whole F2P/P2W discussion. No admission that it was impossible because the company would be bankrupt in a weekend. Just silence. Deafening, telling silence.

This isn't on you, nor is it on Raesh, Melete, or even Armifer. All of the current crop of developers are great. This is on the company and the parasites that have squandered the potential.

Someone asked why they're looking for new players. The ugly truth is that without new suckers they will slowly become insolvent as people cancel credit cards that are paying for accounts they forgot about.