The right time to get depressed?

Looking at all the recent threads and posts expressing the authors' disappointment and frustration, I start wondering about something.

Remember the days when CR 2.0 was in development? Tons of players were mad and canceled their accounts, of course not without expressing their disappreciation on the forums before. What were the reasons for the complaining? Looking away from the sceptism of the combat system itself, just as such or for particular reasons, it was the heavy lack of content caused by the work on CR 2.0.

And that was understandable. Events were as good as at zero; a new entry in the Live Events forum was rather a big exception. The story progressed in a quite indefinite way, and not really efficiently. New content additions weren't even considerable -- apart from the Anniversary event, everything revolved around the combat revision.

Although many kept assuring that new content would come as soon as CR 2.0 was out, the critics put them off and started talking about how they weren't getting all the things promised before, and how that would never change, so pfft, I'm on my way, do it to yourself SOE.
Even when CR 2.0 was released, and the forum was flooded with event posts, they still kept assuring us that it was only because of the event, and things would go down again after it was over.


And now, look what we have.
Events on a daily basis; a regular, thought-out and dense story progression; at least three significant content additions: new areas (something players have cried for), new abilities (something at least the DVD preview talked about, concerning the organization aspect), and city content expansion (also something players have wanter all the time).

Everything looks like things are going uphill, after the big CR 2.0 void?
But no. Several players have picked this very moment to make get finally frustrated and voicing it on the forums, eventually also leaving the game (and I mean also those agreeing in the replies). And (among others?), it's the same folks who were defending CR 2.0 back then and kept talking about a better future.

I mean, they all have reasonable motives, and some even don't have that much to do with this, rather just generally unfulfilled expectations for the game, not the way it would evolve after that CR 2.0 "crisis" -- I don't mean to generalize or simplify anything here.
But still, just looking at where we are and this (more or less) sudden flood of sceptism and disappointment, I can't help myself but finding (grammar?) it highly ironical.


Erm, any opinions?