You know the genre is in trouble when the F16 doesn't care about the MMORPG genre any longer.
There was a saying the old relics of the past, the ones that buried this genre into a sinking pile of shit, used to believe in and I am guessing that they still do now. "Let them bitch. It's when the bitching stops? That's when we have to worry" That phrase was used 13 years ago. And guess what...
The bitching has stopped. These idiots had the entire genre in the palm of their hand, and just like Nicky Santoro said in Casino, "It's the last time that street guys like us were ever given anything that valuable again".
Now? The "Crew" works out of garages getting funding by some sucker on the street who is overdue on his electric bill and will believe anything just to keep the lights on for his kids. Maybe the investment will make enough of a return that he can walk down to the 7-11 and pick up a Milky Way for for the family Christmas day dinner. Either way, about 5 people care now, and 4 of those are the ones hanging on tight to the same dream they knowingly screwed up when they had the world in the palm of their hand. The market has moved on from their incompetence, and now that incompetence can be seen in other genres as a result of some of that mindset flourishing into other companies. These idiots believe their own paid for audience clappers when they already know they are plants, at E3. (See Matt Firor's presentation at E3) and can somehow ignore the fact they are marketing plants or company employees. It's hilarious. And no one even cares about that anymore either.
My F16 says good riddance. Relics, eat my jet wash. My fighter is on to bigger and better things than worrying about what a bunch of has-beens are doing in their spare time as they, now, and fully finally realize, they "dun fucked up".