Yes, it's true that they want to make their private servers to get the premium offers sold (the free-to-play part is not interesting for them, but the in-game shop) and generate money with this. Additional events: July 08, Mining event 21:00 - 23:00 (Map: desert) July 12, manwoo 20:00 - 22:00.
They are also dumb, as you can see, because they ask here (not knowing what these forums are for) and also you will never be able to explain to them what's wrong, because they are not interested in FreeBSD. You should also know that these people are mostly young (below the age of 18). Be sceptical and ask directly and warn them about the consequence, if it is Metin2 that they want to have running. That's why you see all the people asking about downgrades. I don't know exactly how it happened, but a build of the server binaries leaked (quite old version that is based on early 7.1 or 7.2). The servers are apparently running on FreeBSD.
It is well-known in large parts of Europe and hosted by a company named Gameforge in Germany.
