Moving on with life is one thing,i too stopped playing this game because i didnt have time,im still back because i love this game.
It is simply not possible that not only 30k people suddenly (over the course of 5 years) decided to leave the game because they didnt have time,and not only that,the game didnt manage to bring even a small percentage of that number of new people back.It just doesnt work this way,something must have gone wrong.
Maybe the game managed 50k people through advertisement and then they stopped advertising or something similar,you cant just lose over half of the population without something going wrong. Or somehow the game failed to attract new players,for whatever reason.
The thing is,when you have a dangerous and steady decline in users you have to do something,and there hasnt been anything serious done like i said very little has changed in the game. Maybe its not about changing something in-game but some other factor,im in no position to know how it works,but surely if the people in charge of this game actually cared they would have done something even after a big drop in user base.
I can tell you that joining a game that has a small declining user base is not very attractive,especially when you have seen how populated it was once.
Oh and joining the game for whatever reason is a complicated process for whatever reason (no reason at all). I joined twice and got declined for "not providing enough information"
I tried to contact ANYBODY from here,and the only way of contact is twitter... TWITTER... which i sent a tweet and i never even got a reply as to why i was getting declined.
There are some fundamental things wrong with the game,somebody else in my shoes wouldnt even try to sign up a second time. I know it might sound surprising but actually have to put effort to make your product even slightly good.