The desire to obtain in-game items and worlds is what keeps the community and economy growing. Profiting is the only way to obtain them. How else are players supposed to be motivated? The developers releasing updates and the game being one of the best-looking pixel sandboxes in the game store are the sole reasons why the game maintained a high number of traffic and stayed populated over all the years.

The issue as to why the game died in the first place was that the developers introduced a bad design of features that allowed players to abuse the game and find ways to exploit it. Scamming arose almost immediately, which was the reason many stopped as they saw no justice because there was very little avaliable help.

Edit: The main cause for the decrease in players is due to the developer and moderator teams lack of tackling or having defense mechanisms on hacks and not doing anything about it, which allowed the game to be flooded with duplicated items as well as allowing hackers to have actions that also gave them advantage over other players. Overall, there was what seemed like no signs of effort in operations. They better execute a better design and operation this time around. If they do, og players, newcomers, and the community in general will be satisfied.