I will sooner continue to write my insular ass mountain japanese shiroyama hicks beating eachother up before starting it all over

Seriously though, I've seen this "fresh start" stuff play out exactly as Krayzikk described in triplicate. Giving a sluggish playerbase reason to quit without something majorly generating hype for newcomers (like the show airing, for example) just kills things dead, and while my elitism problem would doubtlessly be sated by trimming the metaphorical fat and leaving only dedicated die-hards, the game cannot be sustained on the backs of the maybe five people who'd go with you.

I love a good destruction of the status quo (read: my one-time presidential voting record), but this is not the situation where it helps anyone.