Well, if the game was free, Id be happy playing with 'new members who are ecstatic and looking for adventure' but in the meantime, older players are paying a monthly fee to access the Auto-ban feature, and other 'updates' that are essentially useless to longtime, and friendly players who don't risk bans.

MY point is, Disney isn't worrying about making this game PLAYABLE in the long term. Its all about the short term cash, and recruiting new players. People who've been paying for over a year indeed have a RIGHT to complain about updates that seem like we are being ignored for the short term profit.

Disney is indeed to blame. They arent looking at the big picture for KEEPING people playing.

Take a look at the latest test release notes. It seems that Disney is finally giving us something that the long time players have been wanting.

Notoriety raised to 50
Weapons to 30
New caves and enemies
Some minor changes in ships and sailing.

I'm sure that there is going to be a ton of discussion about this over the next few days.

I think they posted that yesterday just to make us think.

They will never release content then the next day BOOM theres new content.

SUPERB!!! THIS is the news many of us were waiting for!