I understand some people never experienced the old wildy but it really isn't
that bad. You have to think every single world will be open to pking int he wilderness, that's a lot of worlds and only so many pkers most of which will be in the same worlds to
fight each other. The people not in those fighting worlds are not pkers but just noobs trying to get easy kills which is also easy to defend against. If you have some teles/black hides/dds/food and some pray there is no reason you cannot run from or even kill any pker that bothers you. Also, remember the wilderness is a large place and open in every world so there will only be a very few pkers per world unless some no honor clan is attacking rc'ers and clue hunters.
As for free trade not being important as some think. Many people enjoyed free trade over the game ruining GE, you see what it's done to help prices -.-
Hopefully with free trade being back the game will balance out again, it's a very simple process to see if you understand economics and everything.
Overall, this is a good update and well worth it