lol @ Makinso being the one to say "what happened to the game??" :p

you were here presiding over one of the major clans during the steepest decline! what happened to your memory??

all our engagement and revenue metrics are actually up for 2016, so I don't know what to tell you :)

The biggest problem in this game was, and continues to be, the ability for a long period of work to be erased in seconds/minutes. That's how we lost casuals and the community kept devouring itself with that mindset. It was a race to the bottom and it's why servers like Alliance have shrunk. The time-based vs turn-based nature of Utopia is more akin to how modern games went but we kept EE classic because the community wanted Earth to be Earth and not something different.

Anyway, comparing Utopia to Earth is basically apples to oranges; enjoy Earth for what it is if that's the kind of game you like.