This post amuses me. Started playing in 2000, seeing someone post about old graal being 2009 made me chuckle.
This same thread has been made a thousand times. the game changes, your friends leave and you will lose interest in the game and claim it's boring now. Wait a few years, come back, make new friends, and the cycle repeats.
IMO the only constant is PKing, enjoy that and the game will never change. Well, as long as they don't turn the pond back into a no pk zone...