I was surprised to see this mail. I was in the open beta and subscribed for the first month. My crappy video card, launch bugs, and a lack of low level content made me decide to just play for the month. I got a new card and have kept an eye on news related to CO. Things seemed like they were going better so I signed on for another month last night. I can see why they're offering free play for the weekend of Bloodmoon. The game doesn't seem to be retaining players well. The interesting thing about not have separate servers is that you can easily judge how many people are still playing the game based on the number of shards for a given zone and the game is VERY empty compared to the month of September. The first month of an MMO's like should be extra busy with people trying out the game but there are, by my best guess, a third as many shards as there was last month. The game's launch wasn't nearly as rosey as they've depicted here but I didn't think *that* many people left. They're trying to entice people to come back and give it another try and it looks like they need to pretty badly. They've clearly smoothed a few things out but that hasn't helped the lack of content. Reintroducing the game with Blood Moon is a good idea but it had better be a pretty sweet update because you can't reintroduce an MMO every 8 weeks and expect people to keep coming back.