Teddy

Well I guess what I've noticed is that even the core community, folks that have been playing these games for a very long time, many of them devs and moderators, rarely make an appearance these days. So it doesn't seem to be confined only to those "normal" players who are only interested in what's new. The disinterest, IA notwithstanding, seems to be with players across the board. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If anything, I'd expect player counts to be higher around now since there is a relatively new mod out there(BFD), and a newly overhauled one(TSR).

I've been thinking the same thing for a while now. Despite being pretty new (BFD) and newly revamped (TSR), the servers for these games are almost always empty. You're lucky to get a game even on weekends. If I'm not mistaken, in the past servers for new releases tended to be fairly full day after day for months maybe even a year, but just a few weeks after BFD and TSR 2.0 were released, they are ghost towns.