I can only speak for myself here.
I ask for proof of the CCU because I don't believe that SG has that many players. Charlie started playing a little over a month ago. In all the time he's played I've never seen over 25 shops on ch1. He's never been ks'ed, never even run into but 2 other players that I can remember. I just can not fathom how with 1,500 players online on the weekends, and what was it.. 900 (?) during the week he can spend all that time without running into a single player. Or rather only running into two.
So I suppose, yes, I am saying I believe Christopher is lying. Everyone lies, I'm not judging him because of it. I am simply disappointed. When SG began we all heard what a great server it was going to be. How different it was going to be. And now, after all this time, it is struggling. And I feel like he's falling into the same things he disparaged in the US server. Telling things that aren't true to try and pull players to his server. If he continued to advertise the many quests his server has, the events, the customer service. Then I would not ask for it. But he's decided to start answering the people who say that SG is a desert with "SG has x CCU now". So I ask for proof, because I don't believe it. I also think he'd have been better off to admit to the IP block right off rather than treat his players like idiots and continue denying it. I think this hurt his business WAY more than the IP block itself. Gamers are resourceful, as can be evidenced by the number of players who do use a proxy to get around the IP block. But when they all start saying there is an IP block and you continually deny it and then one day admit it. Well you make yourself look like a fool and damage the trust your players would have had in you.
Also I read somewhere that many MMO's make their CCU public and Metin2 is one of the few servers where they don't. As for allowing access to the admin panel.. Why? Why would you need to do that to allow everyone to see your CCU? I admit I am not technically savvy enough to know these things. But then again, neither is he when he answers me. (See Roph's post above mine)
As for the rest of your post, I agree. It was entertaining at first, now it is just the same people with the same arguments over and over again. That's my two cents~