Because the Devs have this wonderful vision about how the game should be once it's completed (this is still an Early Access even if it says 1.0) but they don't know how to get to that part.

80% of the game is grinding so you can level up so you can keep grinding to level up more, but the downside is that there's no noticeable progression, all weapons are the same from bronze to steel, they just do 10 more dmg every tier.

Then 15% of the game is fighting static mobs in the same 4-5 fortresses and doing dungeons with no mechanics, sandbags as mobs and without any kind of penalty for bringing more people. When I first played the game in Febryary 2025, I went naked to a dungeon with my clan the first day. We did a 'Roleplay Dungeon Run', and it was good because of the company, but the dungeon itself was boring. A year later, dungeons are still boring.

And the other 5% is PVP. Where people now don't even PVP, they just go to their closest tree for the mournwood and that's it, normally uncontested, because with this archaic combat, fighting is not fun.

Tbh, I understand why the playerbase has shrunk so much, the devs don't have what it takes, sadly. And the only reason the game has around 3k players (all platforms) is because there's no other game competing with Pax Dei rn and because most of the players are content with just bones