I saw this happening and is one of the reasons why I slowed down, lost interest and actually went inactive for quite some time.
However, what disappoints me most is the change from "Oh yes, we actually meant it to be that way so it wouldn't be "GRINDY" and people would actually have time to do something else, rather than grinding all day." to "Well nothing was set in stone, we fucked up, so let us wipe all your progression which you invested time, sweat and blood in so we can name ourselves DarkRO."
The former being what was exactly said and I believe people would back me up when I say it is, and the latter being the statement after you've secured the old domain.
And since I was told not to share the information that I was given to prevent insider leaks. I leave you with this while you're exploring your options and before you implement the changes:
Half will without doubt not work. The math is ridiculous, it would only end up the same as the ones you implemented before and nerfed/changed later on. Some were clever ideas, but some weren't given much thought to. Implementing those would only upset the present players still and will give new comers a hellish time. That's if they would even prefer to come here. You're only gonna end up losing whatever players you have left soon, and would probably just push through with the wipe.
One of the points you are missing:
We don't care if the economy gets drunk, wrap its sorry ass to a tree and then explode due to its non-existensial crisis.
However, I will not dismiss the points that does deserve compliment
I've seen a lot of changes when it came to PvP that would've taken a year for the old DarkRO to implement perhaps just one or two of those. You've taken MvP hunting to a new level although it wasn't really everyone's cup of tea.
And even though I was with you people and hardly ever against anything that was implemented until recently, it is with a heavy heart that I'm gonna be frank with you all, this isn't gonna work out by simply riding on the name "DarkRO" as you hope it would.
P.S. by all means, criticize, butcher everything stated above. I no longer give a fuck. I'm sitting this one out.
P.P.S. xiv/darkro = 0, rebirth = -4(went up 1 point)
Cheers.