I've seen people come and go recently, I think the retention has always been low but it's even more apparent now with the lower volume of people coming in. Wouldn't say I necessarily want the game to die, but it has had an extremely good run, so I don't mind either way. It seems unlikely that we'll see some sort of 2014 surge happening again since toribash requires quite the attention span and doesn't really have any form of instant gratification apart from maybe making the tori do funny stuff and fall over, which isn't entertaining for the hundreds of hours it takes to get decent at the game. Would love to be proven wrong and see new stuff happen with the game, who knows maybe toribash next will do well as it's more suited to casual play with 4 players and guns and whatnot
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