The way it was explained by a former Kesmaite, to someone who was considering buying it; the server software was such a patched up buggy mess, it would be doubtful that anyone outside of the old Kesmai crew could ever get it to run stable enough to serve the game. The 3 phase update they were in the middle of when (you know who) axed the studio included a complete re-write from scratch to take care of those problems. Been 7 years since I sat in on that chat, but I think that's a fairly accurate summary.