My main gripes with this game

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before the surge in new players to the game, the only players you had in DF was other experienced players to the game. The reason why you are seeing more new players per DF is just because thats how many new players are coming into the game.

That's completely untrue. There have always been sprouts everywhere on most servers and the game has been flooded with new players for many, many years.