worrying trend is how much money they're potentially losing everyday.
f2p, rarely any ads, almost unmarketable to advertisers because of the low population.
downgrading servers would be noticable and playerbase would complain.
maintaining optimal servers would probably be pretty costly but there'd be nothing really to draw in an influx of new players. the announcement of the acquisition was like a mini-steam launch with the population boom but changes dont happen that fast in the development world.
time is definitely not on LO's side. glhf.