I wonder if they had let people host their own servers the game would have flourished better. Require an authentication from the central server once when you st

I wonder if they had let people host their own servers the game would have flourished better. Require an authentication from the central server once when you start the game to appease the DRM cultists if you must, then let players themselves provide server hardware if they can and want to. With central servers there is just no way for discrete communities to really form, since everyone is funneled into the same pot, and that is against the game's core design.