I think the flaws you listed are actually what's awesome about the game. I like that it takes weeks and weeks to play start to finish. Sure, maybe someone doesn't have a flash computer, but then they wouldn't have started playing in the first place. The negatives you pointed out lie entirely in the player, not the game. That why Black Mage won and I got second. We wanted to play, we wanted to win, so we spent the time and effort to do so. Lizard Dude would have been in contention for first or second place if he hadn't quit at the end. One could argue that he quit because the game was becoming a chore which he put off until later, but again, that's a user error.
