Greetings Jonneyfive,

First of all, we would like to thank you and all our Adventurers in North America and Europe for the many opinions and suggestions you've sent to us. Prior to the update, we had a lot of discussions internally about the change as it was likely to be a controversial one.

As informed through the September 6th website notice, we have made many updates to address the problem of one-sided conflicts/harassing in the past such as increasing the silver fee for maintaining a guild war, guild protection systems, etc. to try to find a better balance. However, because such problems continued to persist, we ultimately came to the decision to go through with this update.

But, this isn't to say that this is the end-all. We're going to continue to keep an eye on any emerging situations so we can make improvements and updates as needed.

Thank you again for your feedback.