Its the same thing with almost every sandbox game. Wipe is coming up for x server in y game. The people who just started get outraged the more stuff they have obtained and don't want to lose there progress. The thing is u will always in the end lose the progress you put into any game. Also there will always be an influx of new players to rlcraft. Pointing out how many joined a day ago means very little when u think about the fact we probably get anywhere from 1-20+ new players every day and many of them die so many times so quick that they may decide to quit before they learn to survive.
I probably put 1-2k hours into tera online and other mmorpgs(i loved my castanics). Tera online was completly shut down on the official side middle of the year 2022. So i lost all the progress and all the stuff i'd either payed for or grinded for and all those hours. I'm not getting a refund for all that so whether its a mmorpg or a sandbox losing something is eventually going to happen. Think of the mmos i played and put alot of time into rift will be the next one i hear about whose servers will more than likely shutdown in the next few years. But, somehow runescape has lasted a long time! XD
We've noticed some issues are getting worse by the day/week/month. More people are having internal server errors and unless they just arn't following our advice cause there 'research' says otherwise it will probably get worse. To top it off when we had to do the hardware upgrade awhile back seems it messed some things up on the server. I know cause i was doing a dungeon in raid world that it bugged out all the spawners that had loaded in and wouldn't spawn mobs from them, spawners that weren't loaded in were unaffected. Some players are reporting a mob shortage but i think thats just our usual low spawnrates. Theres the possibility i'm wrong. Even our fishing seems to have bugged out and i don't feel like trying to get anyone to fix these issues that most might actually clear up from a wipe in the first place.
I'll use imho even tho i feel its more fact. The wipe is gonna be more beneficial in the long run at this point than any of the downsides people have pointed to.