[quote=@LeeRoy]
You ever notice how we all congregate to the chat thread, talk a lot, even pitch fights. But when push comes to shove, we're not that active of a board?

I mean it's weird, Skallagrim starts a thread and everyone flocks to it like flies to shit. 
Rilla starts a thread and boom we're crawling on it like maggots on meat.

But anyone else? Death sentence from day one.

WHy is that?
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They made the Arena what it is on RPG, basically built it up from the ground-up. Most if not all of the people who've been here for over a year have participated in things run by one of those two before, some only started Arena combat because of them. 

Point being, they've earned their reputation, vulgar analogies aside, and most people respect them for it.

Let's face it, there aren't that many of us congregating in this chat thread anymore, there's maybe, three regulars still around, that's it. At its peak this chat had maybe ten to fifteen people in it regularly. Sometimes losing the Old Guard is beneficial, but evidently that wasn't the case in this community. 

I suppose there might have been other reasons, but it seems like the drop-off of player-base directly correlated with Skallagrim and Rilla's absence, perhaps alongside the inevitable decline after the sharp peak brought about by the new ranking system. Though I suppose you'd have to ask those people personally why they're not interested any more to know for sure.