Well, Franchise or not, if oasgames wants to take on the franchise, then they are responsible for it.

Of course, you could pity them for having a contract under a franchise, but then you should also pity the whales paying the game a much higher markup than for other non-franchised games. And you would have pity the regular players having to end up playing an inferior product with many bus and translation errors in it. And you'd have to have pity to osgames for having a very large PR budget that does not include communicating with existing players, and so on...

What I probably pity the most, is the p2w players who will find out that their money to the game basically make their game lasts until the f2p players are gone to newer servers (because these f2p have nothing to do on those servers) and the paid players end up being merged to even older servers.

The fact that so many servers need to be merged, means that, at some point, f2p players got too little to continue to play on those servers. That's sad, because it means that Oasis is losing lots of potential income, AND it makes a bad name for their franchise partners, for making franchise rules that makes franchise takers losing money.