Well we all know that there in 2003 or so, they merged/got bought by Adventurine. Thets when they suddenly had some money, and they moved to Greece to make that money go further.

I have basically read it as "we realized we could be more sucessfull/do more" happeneing twice. Once, when the game was basically a skeleton of a game, IMO from what I can tell
DFO @ 2003/2004 would have been basically like early SB. Cool in its own way, yet incomplete, w/o much content.

In 2005, they were thinking of release, but realized game was starting to look very dated graphically, and was still missing things... like Mounts.

Now they revamped GFX, and have mounts, and more world content. Hopefully their gamble pays off, and the game is actually "good" when it comes. Not good as in "well, its good cause it works and its a fantasy type PvP game" but actually , really truly "good" as a game.