The dates and activity on the forums are down. Looks like Funcom knows what they're doing, clearly.
Years of people asking and wanting the right system to be implemented to keep players happy was never implemented due to their selfish ways.
I don't feel sorry for them, I actually pity a company that has so much money from the start and through it's entire course of running all of it's game, they as a company still fail to see what a player base truly wants.
Just because you attend a school on how to make video games, doesn't mean you know how to make or run one.
It's like somebody buying a camera for film and then trying to make a movie, you either have the talent and envision what is required to make an awesome film, or you don't.
That's how I portray Funcom as a company.