I disagree with you here, sorry.
Inactive people don't get deleted if they are beyond chapter 3 or if they have ever purchased diamonds for that account.
About the communication: This has been very clearly communicated. It has been on our forums, there was an ingame announcement, it has been on Beta for weeks and the changes were made due to player feedback. It was known upfront that these changes would be there, this was pretty hard to miss.
Yeah, that's the problem isn't it? You seem to have been consistantly disagreeing with roughly 90% of the forum posters about the recent changes. Feel free to draw whatever conclusion you want from that.
- Forums; not many people actually keep track of the forums, not even fellowship leaders.
- Ingame announcements get clicked away, like I already said. They are like ToS agreements, hardly anybody bothers reading them.
- Beta; same thing as the forums.
- People have been asking for player movement, yeah. I am saying the implementation could have been smoother
And apparently it was not THAT hard to miss, conidering the amount of people already talking about it on the forum as if it was a surprise (not for me, of course, I knew it was coming).
However, I am saying that the way Inno communicates does not REACH their players. Combine that with the way Inno implements things, then things come as a surprise. And with that "way" I mean they just plunk it down.
So, in my opinion, it would have been better to have shown people a pop-up (with explanation) a week ago which would not go away untill they made a choice for ON or OFF. Then you can truly say that this was communicated and not a surprise.