My opinion on why the game has constantly been losing players

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Reasons why playerbase is decreasing over the time are much more complex and thinking that simple reverse of mod to .85 version would magically solve problems this game and community have, and playerbase would suddenly start growing in significant numbers, is quite naive in my opinion. Every time I see such sentiment, it reminds me old people I see in the city bus complaining about stuff and claiming "things were much better when we were young, everything sucks these days".

Also, what then? We would be playing .85 forever? That would hardly be interesting in long-term. Especially when one of the most loud complaints people had back in .85 times was that mod is stagnating (because waiting for .86 was really long) and no longer interesting due to no development so players were leaving "because there is nothing new to do".

But what if that was really better, not just "cus the grass was greener and vodka tastier"?
The more times passes by, the more people lean towards classics, because it provided more action and satisfaction in some numerous ways, as we can judge from today's perspective.
Well, RP is endless, so yeah, why not, even without tamagochi PoBs there's lots of things to do, everything's limited by your imagination.
Even with people complaining, it was 255/255 almost every evening.

Yeah, I remember hearing such things from them somewhen around .87: "You don't respect our efforts etc."
Who cares for such efforts if they drive the game into oblivion.

Yeah, "you don't respect our efforts" is a common reply here.

What people who say that don't understand is that pointing at a problem to help solve it isn't the same as not respecting someone's effort. It's respecting them enough to not treat them like a 5 year old who drew a picture, but like someone who has the capacity to take and understand criticism.

The funny part is that many people who say "you don't respect other people's efforts" are only talking about their own effort and don't respect other peoples efforts by blocking their criticism/contribution (effort which also takes effort) even when they know perfectly well that it would lead to improvement.

That's all an everlasting topic, of course. Never gets old. Would be nice to hear Admins' overall opinion on this. Things have to be made.