[WHERE ARE ALL THE PLAYERS?!]

On 11/8/2023 at 10:10 PM, Einstein said:

The community around these games (both here and in previous places leading up to the formation of W3D-Hub) has been on a gradual decline since roughly 2009-2011 (kinda difficult to say) with surges of major activity mixed in. The W3D engine is over 20 years old now, and despite our best efforts to modernize it and even after making some gigantic strides of progress, to some people "old" just kills any interest, regardless of how far it has come. "Normal" gamers are always chasing the latest and greatest new thing. The rest of us hang out at W3D-Hub and MPF, etc.

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).

[WHERE ARE ALL THE PLAYERS?!]

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.