So, it's just a money grab. In terms of updating the game and making it friendly to a community potentially interested in seeing this project grow, that's totally secondary. It's a shame that the focus is only on selling “packages” and not giving an enjoyable experience. While there are codes to get an initial boost in the game, everything else is investing real money and without that there is no real way to advance, as there is not a single event to play. Servers like this are the ones that are short lived, once they get what they were looking for, there is no real reason to continue to keep it on. You see this a lot in other games where private servers then “change versions” and people who spent on that server have no way to get back what they spent. A pity.