[quote=@Tojiko]Crazy how so many are willing to complain about it here and I have yet to see them post in the area in months. Being apart of the arena when it was booming with activity means nothing to me, but sticking through the shit it’s in now is a respectful grind.  [/quote]
Perhaps there's multiple reasons Arena is in a decline? 

A lot of the “old blood” by my measure have either retired from writing or simply stopped posting in arena—moving onward to story-based RP's in Casual and Advanced. Honestly, I couldn't care less about the people who “stuck it through” if those people are the ones helping determine the state it is currently in. I'm of the mind that Arena needs some thematic changes, not the same ones Dias is proposing, but ones that will actually invite more people like [@Silver Carrot] and others to actually want to participate in the forum at large. People who aren't veteran Arena RP's from other sites. You want to be welcoming and looking forward, and well the “competitive-versus-collaborative” obviously hasn't worked very well. 

I'm not omnipotent, I don't know the exact best approach. I just know where we're at now and I know the RPG community well enough to take an educated guess at what approaches would just create Arena to be more insular and uninviting. Arena doesn't have to be "im gonna kick yer ass m8". Arena can be "let's write a fun match togehter". I've seen it happen and I believe in it. But it's going to take people to want to post and those who are still here not to have a "well you weren't here before so your opinion doesn't matter, get out bitch". If the consensus among the Arena regs don't want to figure out a way to get new blood interested and feel welcomed, then well, maybe Arena [i]should[/i] die. Just my two cents.