I don't really get how their server being hacked and Aegis being stolen prevented them from fixing any bugs, though. I don't really buy that store. And iRO doesn't even have the source code, so how could they have restored it from there? By reverse engineering? Yeah right.
In the meantime those...
I would quit literary consider Renewal "the final nail on the coffin". It's the perfect metaphor.
As the others said, RO was declining way before that.
I disagree that it's just that "RO's time came". The problem was more that RO turned into a niche game, but the developers didn't treat it as...