Or people adapt and change their attitudes and guilds change their approach on how they handle splitting up the raid week.
But...your top 3 list would mean I'd have to donate to get heroic DBW or heroic caster loot. Wouldn't it be more satisfying to earn it yourself with a guild where it doesn't cost you money at all?
Okay, I'll add to it in that the magic is called adaption. You find a way to make the new system work to your advantage instead of complaining about what won't be undone. If that means making effort to find a guild to raid with that has also adapted to the change, that's your problem.
Been here since late 2011 and have also spent money as well. Ended up choosing not to BiS my toons after the moltdown because honestly the game gets boring really fast when you're BiS. It's much more satisfying to be able to say I earned my gear instead of donored for it.
Really? So you're just going to totally ignore the financial cost of what it takes to run a project with little to no donations because you don't like how the server is turning blizzlike instead of being a fun server.
Do me a favor and go look up hosting and hardware costs. Don't forget you have Intellectual Property laws to worry about so it has to be outside US jurisdiction and influence. When you're done, come back here and tell me you'd really be willing to pay those costs from your own wallet or if you think enough people would donate the money you'd need every month for the hosting bills and I'll withdraw this statement from above.
They are. It's a private server. The project owner has a goal and a vision. He's operating it like so to meet that goal and vision. Don't like it? Guess you got no other choice but to suck it up since as you already said there's nothing better out there. Get over it.
This is probably the only thing you've mentioned that I actually do agree with you on almost 100%. Talk to QA about this, because it's them who have to test the developers code before it goes on to the live realm.