Epics and upgrades were only good for the game if you were one of the lucky ones to have had the money and/or time to catch the sales or have one given to you when someone left the game. If you weren't you were humped on a daily basis by those that got them. Do people like playing a game they have no hope of being a factor in? An awful lot of folks didn't think so and let YNK know it by ragequitting. The only people that actually enjoyed these were the ones that had them. If you were not, the game stopped being fun really fast.
I don't call that in any way, shape or form "one of the best things to happen to Rohan". I call that the first salvo in a long string of YNK's failures, each one accompanied by yet another group of long term players heading for the door. By the time YNK turned iRohan over to PWI it was too late and the damage done. I am not sure there is anything PWI can do to win those Rohan-loving players back. Isen is a good step in that direction, but as I have been hearing it is too little - too late.