Is OGame Dead?

When I first noticed Officer's a few days ago, my first thought was about quitting this game. Now, few days later, after I read more and more about it, I am definately going to quit OGame. I've already found a guy I owe nothing to, but he's cool and as I write this my fleet is almost ready for a trip to a distant galaxy waiting to be recycled.

After playing for more than a year, it ain't easy to give up all that work. Officers are just the top of the iceberg. There's plenty of other things that bother me, firstly the serious lack of players in older universes. It's almost impossible to find someone to attack lately. It's understandable that players have no interest in joining some older, well established universe, but still, Gameforge should open new universes at a much slower pace.
Although I didn't like interceptors as a ship, mostly because they seem overpowered, I welcomed them because it was nice to see something new for a change.

Officers however, are more of an annoyance than a change. You might have noticed the polls on various forums, where more than 90% of the players are against Officers. But Gameforge (GF from now on) obviously doesn't have some public relations guy who could give us some clue about what's going to happen. For a company with 40ish employees, that sucks. It seems like someone from GF just woke up one day, and said to himself OMG LOLZ I know how we can earn money fast! Is it that hard to hire someone who could just come to the forum once in awhile, say Hi it's me from GF, my job is to listen and pass on your suggestions and complaints to the appropriate people. GF didn't even bother to inform their game admins about the change.
Protests, suggestions, petitions... it won't help if nobody listens.

This one is for Gameforge:
give Officers for free! Yeah that's right. You did good work with it so that way it won't go down the drain, and you can still save some player's respect in you as a company. It could be similar to choosing a race in various other online games - when we make an account, we can choose which officer we want. If we want more than one - then we have to pay.

I'm gonna wrap this up. Will Officers bring money to Gameforge? Hell yeah.
Will it bring many new players? Hell no. Will some old players leave because of this? I know one will.
I read somewhere that officers are supposed to stay for a week or so just for testing - but why did they sell it already for 3 months then? Gameforge guys should take a deep breath and think about what they are doing. Is this a desperate move, trying to earn some short-term money?