I'm kind of amused Disney bought out a terrible Lets Player in general.
I closed the previous thread as tone wise it was going weird places and we've pretty much covered why there has a been a wee bit of an exodus this last year.
In my opinion, we can't really stop the general decrease of players but instead should be working towards bringing back older ones and keeping things fresh enough so people might not get bored and leave in the first place.
Consider contacting or asking old friends who dabbled in the past, client side mods or just playing events in Total Conversion mods we have too. Speaking of events, the reigments or people in charge should consider trying custom maps or just shaking things up by changing the game mode every now and then. Maybe experiment with having events at a slightly later or earlier time.
We could also do with with a new promotional STEAM Event Group with an active staff with a good selection process to prevent bellends from abusing the system. I left the old one almost a year ago because some clown thought abusing his annoucement rights was hilarious.
We as a whole community can really do a lot more to keep things going. The NW community won't entirely die too, It will however close up and become a lot less accessible for newer players or mods to take off which we must prevent from happening.
Oh, and a STEAM sale or reduction in price would help a lot too.