Quote Originally Posted by Ggwppino View Post
GG, make a video game populated only by casuals survive. Who knows of those who play now have dropped out.
The game is, by what limited information we can tell, more popular than ever. Of course this has been bolstered over the years by things like WoW seriously wounding itself, but most of a game's audience - any game, at all - is and always will be "casual" players.

They chose to rework an unpopular job and made it one of the most popular. I'm not without sympathy for the people who liked old SMN (although I have no shortage of confusion), but it'd be a very hard-pressed task to find how making a job that is a hit with the lion's share of the player base is actually a negative. I've never been happy myself with 100% of what the devs have done, but on the whole, we've consistently moved in a positive direction.