Is it also possible that Roleplaying as a pastime is fading somewhat in today's day and age? I don't really know how you'd measure that, but if it was a really popular thing to do several years back, and then a series of unfortunate catastrophes shut down a lot of roleplaying options at once, people just decided to find other things to do with their lives?

Or am I wrong, and the RP crowd has just moved away from RPguild to other places?