I assume that I am misecrombre ? Ð:
If so, I can tell you that I didn't left for economy reasons. Ultima is a great server and I still like it / play once in a while. It's just that I am a bit tired of pso in general, and I have seen it all here on Ultima. So I have almost no interest left here (except when a cool new weapon is made ^^" I just like to collect).
Also, this all "event drop only" does not fit at all with my lifestyle. And I strongly suspect that it is the case for a lot of people, since well... we have life don't we ?
If one big change were to happen here on Ultima, it would be to put all interesting items all year around. I mean, you can still put all those "Magazine" and other toys for event. But even so, I'd let them drop with insane % (since that would barely made them more useful anyway). Of course it would fixed economy on the long term, but who care about that, it would just cut a lot of pressure on the players and make the game more enjoyable overall.
Events to me should be about ambiance, a global festy vibe, perhaps some better drop rate on some particular items, or mixing up drop in the table, or something a bit original !
It is sad to say, but adding new items which are barely balanced / useful is not something original to do. It is a complicated process that become even harder when the server grows and get even more new items.