They needed to fix the duping bug sooner and then they needed a totally whipe of items by the end of April. I mean the Mercs duped and made a vile forge in the first 2 months of the game and AFIAK another wasn't made 1 year and 3 months later on NA or EU b/c it cost to much and wasn't worth it. They dupped up their skills so sad . Korvos had 50 mil on NA guess it pays to know the right guy BTW I was in his guild he never farmed untill they found out how to bug out the Devil's and he had his wealth way before that.
My point is alot of people left because of that and that fact that they took to long to do anything. They wanted to realease most of the patches in huge updates that just broke/unbalanced the game even worse. They kept doing that without fixing things that had been around since day one that was messed up. Sound familure?
Oh yeah I forgot about the various exploits. The exploit that really bothered me was the acid pool exploit because it created huge pvp imbalances so early in the game. Some beta testers knew full well about it but decided they wouldn't report it so they could abuse it for their own gain. It was clear early game who exploited this bug because you literally couldn't kill these guys in pvp without 3-4x numbers. People's defense was "well you will eventually catch up to them" but in reality you won't because those are the guys who will do anything to max their characters. It's almost a metagame of who can find the next exploit to gain an edge over everyone else.
Oh and another negative aspect of this game, the community. It literally has the worst community of any game ever created. If you want to surround yourself with degenerates then darkfall is the place.