Looking back on it all, I'm of the opinion that Craig Morrison single-handedly saved AoC from certain and complete destruction. Hear me out. By 09' AoC was hemorraghing players, and the pay 2 play model wasn't working. I think Craig may have actually stopped the mass exodus of players and helped turn the game around by correctly spotting the PvE aspects and trying to add some context to the PvP as well through Bori.
+ By 2010 the game stopped losing players and was turning around.
+ Rise of the Godslayer was a roaring SUCCESS and critics/players alike loved it.
+ Craig succesfuly (and correctly) turned the game into F2P, knowing the business model will be more profitable for Funcom.
+ Mr. Morrison helped balance out the game,stabilized it, fixed a lot of bugs and added structure to PvP through Bori (helping players attain higher PvP levels through grind...but gave them a fighting chance).
+ Finally, Mr. Morrison was PROMOTED (<-- Key here), he was promoted to head the future of Funcom through the mobile games division and specifically with the Lego minifigures game (a HUGE and MUST BE SUCCESFUL game for Funcom). To give this critical project to someone who Funcom considers has failed is unthinkable.
I really don't think the pbase here realizes how much of a badly needed asset Mr. Morrison was. THIS GAME WAS SAVED BY CRAIG MORRISON.