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The main reason for me is the down time, servers or auth, caused by the attacks. Been playing this game since 2004, quited somewhere in 2010 and started playing again spring 2015, when heard a buddy talking about assist. Even last year i used to play a few evenings a week, but lately not so much, since atleast every friday evening and saturday evening, there is a attack. These two evenings i want to spend well, which means i do not want bs server attacks.
Since the attacks started and comming frequently, the ammount of players drops. In the end, our dear friend, got what he want: if i cant play, noone can.

you cant use 203 if servers are down 25% of the time

It's not the rpg nor lack of 203 that drives people away, unstable servers caused by daily attacks against the server application in certain ip's is the issue ( as far as I have understood ), there are providers who have protected servers but even they cant prevent these attacks ( yet ). If there was a way to fix the Vanilla app, then there might be way to beat this mofo.

And btw, there is a way to play the game even if auth was down or even if this would die. As long as you make sure information about your own LAN server doesnt end up into wrong hands, you can enjoy of this game as much as you want without no one crashing it. It works like a charm, we have had no issues while playing over there. When we were not able to play internal scrims anymore, we had to figure out another way to play the game.

I love to use bad examples, so here's yet another. What if someone would get extremely dangerous cancer that couldn't be cured, would it be doctor's fault that they can do nothing but lessen the pain? We had cancer among the community which was cut off but like in surgery, sometimes it still has its consequences. The cancer wants to kill this totally, it's all about how strong the community is to fight back.You're barking up the wrong tree here, we should all be thankful for Assist Admins that this still exists, without them this would have died already years ago.

Sure, the fault is all of us, We are sorry for running a free service in our spare time with no profit!
We are really, really, sorry for keeping away cheaters, exploiters and 'finger less' macro players, In my next project, I will write a note aside of my monitor: Quantity is better than Quality.
I will remember what you said, next time I see you complaining about server crash, I will ban you.