>>55952863A combination of factors. For starters, the internet has become infested with the idea that you should NEVER be yourself, because that's cringe. You're also no longer allowed to like things as well, UNLESS they're apart of the approved "based" list which is the most normie thing possible, because that too is cringe.
These general problems aside, there's a number of issues with the franchise. Poor quality games have made a lot of us jaded. Almost everyone who still cares have long since left, and probably won't return until something good is made. /vp/ also has the youngest audience on 4chan(the average age being younger than the board itself.)
I'm sure that someone far more eloquent else could elaborate on these points in greater details, but these are the things I noticed myself.
>>55952926Yeah, it truly was unfortunate...