It's reap what you sow. These metin2 communities allowed the easy creation of servers with no effort, with all the features they needed.
Majority of the sellers contributed to the crap that's out there, "the features they needed".
Good and bad work, free or sold it all added up.
But most of if it crap, that's why most of the servers are crap. The most make the norm. So I think it's what led to quite a big loss of players.
No disrespect towards the ones that put effort in it, the ones that wanted to make a good thing.
The few decent servers out there, the ones that you can count them on your fingers, that have a few people behind that know some stuff, that put effort, they carried metin2 game.
We know them by their longevity, quality and player count. So congrats to them.
If the officials were the better option, they would have the players. Closing the good big p-servers out there won't get the players back. So it kind of feels like the end is near for this game.
It's my opinions.