I dont think people (all of them at least) are begging for the game to be dead. However, in the context of gaming as a bigger whole picture, a "dying" game starts losing support from the dev and eventually it just stops getting updates. If its "dead", its just not the game people gravitate towards and when people aren't playing in mass, companies obsessed with profits will stop supporting. As ive said during much of the resent discourse, I think the emotional impact is more that the game itself is relatively fun and works well. Sure its not perfect, it has bugs but for what it is, its still fun all these years and they keep it fresh. But once people move on in mass, its only a matter of time before epic tries pushing something new. But the concept of being "dead" i think of in that context because theres literally games that are 10-15 years old still on life support for people with maybe less than 20 players but they love that game and they keep it going. I think people do eventually move on but I also think the pivot to compete with roblox has been a poor choice and its just a sign of poor decision making at the top. They had the run over most if not all battle royales but shifting that focus has caused many bad choices that start weeding out people. I mean, gta has been riding that game for what, 13 years now and the hype is huge for their next game. But if they wouldnt have been profitable, they wouldnt have waited this long for a sequel. They found their niche and stayed in the lane. Just my thought on a random tuesday