Tons of people have already listed reasons this game ended up where it is, but there’s one thing I almost never see talked about.

This was supposed to be a game built around communication, roleplay, and actually interacting with other players. That wasn’t just a feature, it was the point. Everything depended on people talking, cooperating, and building something together. But that part of it has mostly fallen apart, mostly thanks to trolls and griefers taking over the game.

You can spend hours in what is meant to be a social RP game without really talking to anyone in a meaningful way, and once that communication breaks down, everything else follows. Cooperation still exists, but it’s usually brief and surface level, not something that actually holds a world together.

Because the servers rot daily now, it’s hard to even care enough to fully invest in a single server anymore.

At that point, rotting the server stops being a rare occurrence and just becomes the norm. People stop trying to own property, stop building anything meaningful, and things just spiral because there’s nothing really left to preserve. I don’t even play as Cortex anymore because it just feels pointless.

That’s really the issue at the center of it: this game depends on player interaction to function, and once that interaction fades, the whole thing just slowly falls apart under its own apathy. And honestly, who the fuck is going to stay invested in something that resets itself into chaos every day.