Rex Amelius wrote:Game is not dead, just in a coma.
STC reigned over the server for long time too. I'm sure they were also blamed by some for its 'death.'
A few voices may point fingers of blame but reasonable people see through the bullshit. Game's issues are development, content, and mechanics, NOT player Behavior.
This game will always have *** ...like me. If you don't like it you can take my venerable Old Man's advice and Get Your Tough *** Card Punched.
See, that's where you're wrong. It's all of those things you mentioned, AND player behavior. For most of the people I know it's the lack of will to log in and fight, knowing that a) at some point we will get outnumbered by the current largest alliance and die, and b) there will be mass amounts of trolling, slandering, and badmouthing we will get in any scenario that happens to involve you folks.
Why would I or anyone else really, want to log in and grind missions or npcs over and over when the end result will always be the above? I don't mind working for the things I need to fight in game, a lot of people don't. But there's only so many times I and others like me can do the same thing over and over with the same outcome before we start looking for fun elsewhere.
I've told you before, you and your alliance have the power to change things for the better in this game for EVERYONE playing it, except maybe sindicks ego. Yay, you guys won! You defeated the evil JOKE and everyone else on the server and are the last 3 corps left standing. You've beaten everyone else into submission. NOW WHAT? Just sit back and watch as the game finally stops sputtering and dies? You could have many more fun engagements at your fingertips and yet you refuse to even consider the possibility. I'm sure some of the more hardcore JOKE guys would come back if you did, and you'd see even more small scale pvp.
You keep saying you guys are best buddies, so you don't want to break up your man love affair. Is it because of fear? Fear that you won't measure up against the competiton? Fear that you'll start to hate those guys that you were buddies with on a few weeks prior? If you were that good of friends, I'm sure that you could pvp against each other and keep it friendly - if you wanted to.
I know, wall of text; TL;DR You're wrong, player behavior is a MAJOR factor for the decline.
Reset each other yet?