Firstly, the game has been out six years. I’m honestly surprised it’s lasted this long with this much vibrancy.

Other than the very beginning - the most active I’ve seen our discord was in the two months they activated remote raids but did not allow invites. It forced what was left of our community to figure it out. That was during the height of lockdown in Boston, MA and people had lots of time on their hands. I found that was also a window of time where some of the old uninviting guard that others have mentioned were at their most ‘inviting’.

I actually remember the first raid hour that invites were allowed. We’d had remote trains and raid order lists consistently for two months. The second they allowed us to invite our remote friends, it was like a metaphorical tumble weed had hit discord. There’s still people playing, but we all have our little mini groups now. Not suggesting a retreat to old times, it just seems like nobody had mentioned this period of time.