First of all, some of the claims were right, some of them were not.
Coming from someone who played from pretty much day one, and was a GM on (now HyoRO) FrostRO for a pretty good while, this server wasn't always bad, nor is it nothing but bad.
It's true, the admin. of Hyo has made some seriously rash decisions, and sometimes, dare I say, stupid decisions, but a lot of the things I've seen him do actually was for the good of the server. That doesn't go without saying, however, there was a lot of corruption among the GM team, and among the players. Here we go:
1. any idiot with money can be strong on this server all they have to do is donate for a few equips like a 1 handed bow that does 100% (yes you can wear 2 of them for 200% dmg) and a death set that adds 10,000+ hit/flee and 4500 all stats and 50% reflect...
Though I have to admit that the donation items were over the top, that was not completely true. While I was playing on FrostRo there were plenty of people who could kill the donators. That doesn't go without saying that those people were mostly people who did use the classes that were easily overpowered (though most of the classes were overpowered as it was, due to the massive rates that the server eventually introduced; 10k being the very first rates on the server). So, you didn't have to have money in order to be strong, nor did you have to have donates.
2. The GMs are horrible usualy they just sit around and if you have any questions either A. none of them know or B. they say well i dont feel like looking it up go to ratemyserver.net
This statement is almost 100% false. Every GM I have seen come and go did do their job, some more than others. It's true that there were corrupt GMs there, but they usually never lasted, and that doesn't justify them not doing their job. Myself, and a few choice other's who's name I will not bring into this did their job as best as they could, and were plenty active as well. As goes for "B", there were a lot of GMs that did that, and it's true, GMs are not there to tell you "go look here", they're there for support at that moment.
3. The server is constantly hacked by russians and you can never buy/sell your stuff because if you buy a hacked item off someone the admin will simply ban you because he wants to be "safe"
This statement, I can say for sure, is not true (besides the hacking portion). People who bought hacked items were not banned, the people who were hacked were banned for a certain period of time in order to investigate, and plenty of those players were unbanned after the Russian hacking was stopped. Coming from someone who was there when the very first hacking like that happened (which apparently turned out to be people from Brazil) stuff like getting banned for buying it off of someone never happened. The most that happened were the items that were hacked off of a GM account and found on a player, the items were simply removed from the account. I know this for a fact because I was present the entire Russian hacking.
4. assuming everyone is scared to buy anything from what has been said above THE ECONOMY BLOWS.
I can't disagree much on this one. To begin with, when FrostRo took its first baby steps, the economy was pretty awesome. Though, recently, and the server grew, the economy did grow pretty bad, mainly because of actions taken by the admin. and things that were allowed to slide when it came to the rules. However, there are a lot of players that are nice, and willing to help.
5. The admin lets everyone turn their equips into cards and then insert them into headgear slots etc. then decides its a bad idea and deletes everyones equips.
What? I don't recall this happening, though it could have happened during a break I took from FrostRo.
6. bottom line the server is dumb and just ygg constantly with their 30k ygg berries and this makes them invincible...
This statement doesn't even make any sense. O_o; The only times YGGs were used was during PvP, they were disabled in WoE as far as I recall, and even in PvP it's easy to create a strategy to get around it.
7. woe is dominated by donators so its no fun for new people or non donators because they will walk in to an emp room and get killed in 1 hit by a star glad with hatred on 3 classes (and when i mean 1 hit i mean 1 hit they do like 60 million+ dmg with quad atk
This statement I also can't disagree with. A lot of the players had complained about that while I was still there, and nothing was done about it.
8. This server is retarded and the admin never replies to any criticism he just bans you.
Frost never banned anyone for expressing their opinion in a non-rude fashion. That statement is 100% false.
In conclusion, it's very true that this server is far from a good one anymore. Had things stayed like they were from the beginning, this server probably could have easily turned out to be a pretty awesome HR. However, like I already said, the server isn't completely bad. As far as I'm concerned, there are still players there that do care, and are willing to help. As far as the GM team goes, I've not met any of the newer GMs that replaced the awesome veteran GMs (excluding one, corrupt veteran GM), so I can't comment on how they do.
So, yes. There is a lot of corruption not only among the GM team, but the players. Yes, the server isn't as good as it used to be, and no, I wouldn't suggest making the server somewhere you'd take root, anymore.
