I actually don't mind the new speed.
Whether you dash or not; it makes no difference now. This makes fights more fun too. I mean, who enjoys running after a 280+ char with haste? No way you can catch him, whether you also use dash or not.
On the actual update I do have complaints..
I mean; is this all you did in the past month?
Updating venore might have took some time, but what about these minor, not to mention useless, updates?
1. Demon outfit --> who cares?
2. Can go to Kazordoon by carpet --> does that take 1 month to fix?
3. The ore wagons in Kazordoon are extended --> who cares?
4. New hunting grounds in Kazordoon --> who hunts on fucking dwarven guards in an OT?
5. Fixed carpet transcripts --> they were working fine?
6. Added Sea Serpents shit to quest log --> does that take 1 month?
7. Changed the Sea Serpent quest with bait shit --> does that take 1 month?
8. Children of the Revolution Quest --> only 4 missions? and no WOTE quest, so it's useless atm? I mean wtf?
9. New chars start with 5 mana --> who the fuck cares?
10. Corrected pz zone at sea serpent boat --> good job, finally!
And all the other minor things are just small changes which should've been on daily or weekly updates, not on a BIG update like this.
To be honest I'm kind of dissapointed in the staff for this. I expected a lot more.
The thing that makes me sad is how extremely ignorant you are and how limited your point of view is. First of all, things take time. It takes shitload of time. We face problems, issues and things go extremely wrong sometimes. For example, during the work with this update, every monster added after Quirefang, along with most of the NPC's on our map disappeared because of a bug in the mapeditor. Something that we couldn't do anything to prevent, and took us first of all, days to notice, and then some hours to fix.
For the most stupid points on your list:
1. Most of you do enjoy getting new outfits and addons, I can't see why on earth you would complain on that.
4. If you would keep on reading, you would see "four of the mines have been inhabited by The Lost at the deeper floors." The lost are creatures with 1200-4400 experience, which could be somewhat comparable with the monsters found in the Hive. (I'm not saying that they are, just that is what the experience tells me.) One of the monsters classified as "The Lost" can since earlier be found in Warzones 2 and 3. The caves has also been extended, and you can reach most of them from Carlin. A new hunting ground with Dragons and Dragon Lords can also be found close to Carlin, which might not attract you, but everyone starts at level 1, which you might know.
Generally, no, ONE THING does not alone take one month, but many things put together do take time. We can't just snap our fingers to make things exactly how we want them, it's a process.
Every. Little. Thing. Takes. Time. Both Mark and I have real lives, where we go to school, have jobs and friends. We don't have 24 hours a day to put in working on this server, but we put a lot more time than most other OT-owners. During this last week before the update, I sometimes got 3-4 hours of sleep because I was sitting up late fixing things.
So please, we don't ask you to love exactly everything that we do, but seriously, don't underestimate the work we actually do.