First of all, please do everyone a favor and go educate yourself a bit before accusing developers of (not) doing something that they're actually not involved with.
Originally Posted by RadexHEJOO
The community is not only small. It is in fact getting smaller and smaller and it is slowly dying. Most servers are empty. Virtually the only people who still actively play the game are on ABD or Wushu.
Veteran players are fleeing the game, being discouraged by lack of actual updates. Physics haven't been fixed for 10 GODDAMN YEARS.
Community is small, yes. And it is getting smaller. But it's mainly because the game is 11 years old and no matter how frequently it would get updated it's still the same game. There has always been a narrow range of mods that people preferred to anything else, ABD always being one of them almost since the moment it appeared. That doesn't anyhow indicate that there's something wrong with the game nor the community - it only means that these mods are good.
Originally Posted by RadexHEJOO
Don't forget the matchmaking system that is empty and slow.
Don't forget the ranking system that is totally flipped around every time kids on the forum cry.
In your previous statement, you said there's not enough updates to keep players interested. Now you're saying that ranking system being adjusted to fit the community requests is bad. Logic?
I also only remember 3 big ranking updates, first being made in April 2011 when ELO system was introduced to replace QI-based ranks, second in July 2015 when monthly rotation and ranked rooms were added and the most recent one (April 2017) when we switched to seasonal system. If it was "totally flipped around" every time there's someone saying they dislike the system, you'd be getting a new ranking each week. 3 ranking updates over a course of 7 years looks like a fine update plan to me, considering Toribash is an indie game.
Originally Posted by RadexHEJOO
LIES. There were often at least 3 or 4 people on that server. No doubt in my mind.
Nope, there weren't. There were 3-4 players max at
peak time, and that's how many players any private room can easily get when there's 250+ players online. In fact, GTBoxing room had even less regular players than realtoriboxingmw2 room which was second least favorite according to a community poll we ran in early June.
Originally Posted by RadexHEJOO
You want to state that kickboxing server was removed because it was empty as well? I can always try to contact SpaceSmoke and other regulars, see what they have to say about that.
It was unpopular, so yes, you can say so. We aren't going to contact separate players to see whether we need to keep a room or not, what we're looking at are general trends. If the room isn't getting the popularity it's supposed to - it is getting removed from public rotation. You're always free to create a private room with any mod you wish and play with your friends if you're unsatisfied with public rooms' mod choices.