Is this game slowly dying?

[Felessan]

Yoshida himself said that creations of new FC's is 'gently decreasing' so yeah, I think its at the point where most people have tried it and got bored with it.

This means nothing. Maximum that you can get from this is that influx of new players is slowing down. There is no information about whether it still above of outflow of players or not. And even this information are not guaranteed as FC space becomes saturated and for newbies that outside of "we are group of friends so we need a separate new FC" there are a little need to create a *new* FC.

All the 1.0 players I knew are all gone, got bored, etc. I think most people are waiting to see if the expansion can save their faith in the game.

I know several people from 1.0 that are still here (both from casual and hardcore raiding crowd) and will be here in 2.4. Some of them are "long-term committed", thus unlikely to quit even if 2.4 fails to meet excessive expectations.

Our FC, which is on top of specific "food chain" (it's a language-based raiding FC) have roughly the same number of players for last 6 months. And raiders are the most volatile and easy to move out part of population.