Here it is, spelled out for you: Players didn't sign on to WoL expecting it to still be in the Beta-testing phase. WoL is a finished product, or is supposed to be. When players signed onto it at the beginning of this age, they expected a finished product, relatively bug-free, or close to it. They didn't sign on to be beta testers. They signed on to play the game they've enjoyed for the last 11 years. Sorry, but from what my friends have told me so far this age, if this is a "finished product", I'm a friggin dutchman.
I can understand your desire to save man-hours and time by pushing it in to replace the already fossilised coding, especially when it came under attack, but you would have lost a lot less players recoding the old script to amend the vulnerability in the old code and putting that back up for an age whilst the last of the bugs were worked out of this one than forcing the entire playerbase to become beta-testers without realising it, something a lot of them just do not want to be, and them all further cause to doubt your sincerity to the ongoing survival of their favourite game
Bad judgement call on your part, Jolt. Now you are seeing the repercussions: a loss of yet another 2000 players over last age. I hope you have something serious up your sleeves, I really do, else this is just going to continue as more and more players retire for good, and the rate of new players landing in kingdoms where they are welcome will plummet. Noone wants to teach half a kingdom of newbies how to play from scratch when last age they were rocking at the top. More and more mergers will occur, and the number of kingdoms will drop like a stone.
Please, Jolt. For the sake of the game we love, start showing some better judgement in your decisions. Well-meaning and a "doing it for the best" attitude can't carry you all the way. If you hear there's an iceburg in the area, it usually best to cut speed, rather than swapping to a new boat or plunging on ahead at flank and hoping for the best. We all know from experience and history what happens when you choose the other course...