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  • Broken Base:
    • One reason for the game's failure were several attempts to overhaul the game that only resulted in the game dying faster — one overhaul removed weapon drops from normal gameplay and made them boss-only while another one removed the reason to grind and level up as well as removing several servers, which resulted in lag. Another was a glitch that made a quest pump out tonnes of weapons — in a game where the only good meta weapons were bought with real money — that was hastily patched and removed any weapon that was farmed from players' inventories, which caused another population drop.
    • The remake of "Always" in 2021 was divisive: instead of the K-Pop/K-Rock style the original was in, the melody had more to do with trot, a Korean genre derived from Korean folk music and Japanese enka. Comments ranged from saying the Genre Shift was abominable, to mocking those who were negative about it by pointing out the people who hated it weren't even alive when the original came out.
  • Memetic Mutation: The game's promotional music video, Always, was a massive hit in Korea and Japan before spreading to mid-to-late 2000s anime fandom in the West, with tonnes of AMVs crossing over with popular anime of the time (Haruhi, Lucky Star, etc.) It saw another resurgence in both Korea and the West in 2020, due to nostalgia for the The 2000s combined with, and arising from, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as COVID-19 lockdowns in Korea resulting in jokes about the "Endless Vacation Phenomenon" becoming true — eventually resulting in Shinji (the singer and a member of K-Pop group Koyote) releasing a remake of "Always" in 2021.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: One reason the game's music videos and lore saw a resurgence in Korea was due to the COVID-19 lockdowns cancelling schools while emptying cities being compared to the "Endless Vacation Phenomenon".

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