No they didn't. They made it functional. Anyone who played if before knew how incredibly easy it was. Every time you played, you got a rare special item. Based on how it was running, they would have had to close it in a week for those items to remain special in any way.

Now at least it's challenging. But it is still skill-based. Re-install Graal if you're having the screen freeze issue, it'll help (though the screen-freeze issue is still something that needs to be seriously looked into, once and for all).

Seriously? What's the point of even having items like that if they're just handed to you? I commend the change.