Plus, the 3D creatures made anyone and everyone's frame rate drop to shit.
The Rotators abandoned the idea because FOnline 2238 had already hit a depression. The playerbase was steadily dropping and the donations just weren't coming in. The server crash-landed in hell, where it survived for one last session, before taking its last miserable breath.
But it wasn't over. Nononono.... The survivors fought and clawed there way from the abyss to the wasteland surface, just to find MORE SERVERS.
1/5 of the survivors moved to FOnline 2, where they find themselves in a rut, unable to leave that horrible place.
2/5 of the remnants moved to FOnline Reloaded, a safe haven from the harshness of the other areas.
No one really knows what happened to the other 2/5 of the 2238 survivors. Some say they moved further east, to the Russian servers.... Some say, they had such bad PTSD from 2238, they just keeled over. Who knows what really happened?
But anyways, yeah that's what happened to 2238 after the "3D era" hype.