Personally I think old devs where finally taking the game in the right direction. War based game with game mechanics to protect the warring tier which makes up 90% of the player base. New ownership time will tell but I think they are going in the wrong direction. Thing I don't get is why not just commit to war based game. If you had two servers a war based server and a growth based server. You would have probably 3k players in the war based server and maybe 300 people in the growth based server. War based server would probably attract alot more players also. Ask any war kingdom why they lose players. It's because they have to interact at some point with the growth tier.