It is impossible to take a break for a certain amount of time and just log back on to continue playing when you feel like it, because everything you need to actually play the game is gone.
I agree, I was thinking to make a post about that.
Many people leaved the game, and after some month come back, check their almost empty bag, leave and never come back.
After many years in game, in a old game, many many people play much less than at begining, and when you lose your stuff, that don't lead to play more or simply log on.
It's like the time .... why do we have to wait so long for move, collect plant with fail fail ... today 25mn to get 10 herb for seasonal quest ... when you have 1h free for play ....no need log on ...
Now are also reputation we can't grow when we have time for. Are some rep or event just twice a year lasting 8-10 days long. If you aren't here exactly at the right time, you can't grow your rep. What's the goal of that?
I remember the eggs deck, we had to feed the egg once per day, so you could feed when you log on the morning per exemple and log again the day after the evening. Was much more comfortable and playable than what they did: every 24h or even 30h. I lost my egg and will never more care on that. Same about rep.
So when you start to skip some event, rep active twice a year and randomly... we even don't know when it will possible to grow rep, when you have lost most of your friends who never come back even not time to time,because they lost everything, when you spend a lot of time waiting, when you can't organize your time the way you want to do certain reps or events, when you lose a lot of your stuff when you take a break....
that lead to lose the few motivation that remain.
Just consider that the game is just a game and our priority is our life, and make some rep or event twice a year, make lifetime on stuff, bless, that will never motivate lot of players who remain in game, to log on every days anymore.
The game is more and more empty, perhaps it is time to adapt the game to players who no longer have the same way of playing after 10+ years of intensive play, if we want them to stay and others to come back.