I used to Play Rappelz. Stopped sometime during the 8.1 release.
Having played since Epic 5, I had seen the ups and downs of the game, as well as the rise and fall of servers.
I am a Pantera Veteran and when they merged that with Undine... things went to shit. There were talks of another merge between Baphomet and another server that was less poulated.
What WebZen fails to realize is that everytime they merge servers they lose a certain percentage of their population. Coupled with the fact that WebZen's approach to the cash shop after having bought it from Gala labs or whoever owned the rights prior, is complete and utter shite. I stopped playing because I had dumped about a grand into my account and felt let down when the MMO came under new ownership. SO, I gave ninety percent of my pixelated junk away and put my toon into stasis for and undetermined period of time. I'm pretty well known from Pantera and on Undine so if I were to ever make another appearance or pick up playing again, I doubt I would have difficulty acquiring necessary gears and or pets from other people as donations xD
That's probably one of the main contributing factors in relation to the decline of the Rappelz side of gPotato. I can't speak for Flyff or whatever other gPot games there are because I couldn't be hassled with playing them.
