Disagree, I believe much more serious problem is the dualbox locked behind a paywall. Most newbies join during a new patch and the influx decreases over time, yes, but the main issue is that only reasonable way to level basically any char except for summoners is to either A) have a box or B) join a party. Most people don't care to drop 10€ just to "try out" a free server and B) is borderline impossible on early levels, so we ended up in a vicious circle where newbies leave because there're no newbies.
The whole donation system needs to change to enable 1 free window for server to grow. The ammount of people who leave because playing a nuker or destro without a box or party is simply not fun vastly outnumbers the ammount of people who'd potentially leave if there were some kind of +10% XP/SP runes in shop.
its been 4 years?, ya know, 1 of my teammate has a son, he was around 4 years old back there, we had a joke with each other like "man, raise your son and let him drive our BD char", man i think that day is inevitably comming
club =/= skelth
that was always the case on club, no exceptions, update in fall = huge amount of people increase of play, only thing why population decreases on club is because update takes way too long (on official they are getting one each half year, but i think 1 update a year is just fine, however zaken is taking already longer than that and it will take even more time)