I gave it a try and decided to come back. Although I see quite a lot of people running around, and the two duties I did had a pretty low wait time, which means the game is far from dead, I went the entire day and saw only TWO messages in chat. I have never seen such a populated MMO chat so dead. Chat was so dead that I actually had to check and make sure I didn't accidentally mute shouts, say and zone text at some point and then forgot about it. I don't know what happened, but it's kind of depressing. Not even a single FC recruitment spam or a gold spammer.