Are you guys actually illiterate? Like come on...
The games not dying because you think some people are mean. First off, most new players don't make forum accounts (The forum account making process was messed up for over a year recently with the "what is the meaning of life" question in order to make an account, THATS why no new players ended up able to even post on forums, not because people were rude to them).
People ripping into Dooci and co's threads is because ALL THOSE THREADS ARE = "THIS AND THIS AND THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED FOR DP TO BE BETTER" -- Guess what? Those fixes aren't coming. You can make 100 threads stating them all, it's been said and done. Jitspoe doesn't have the time to make a major change even once a year. It takes this game about 3 years to see a major change. Look at how long you've played, what has changed other than maps? And maps aren't done by the developer. Jitspoe lacks the time. THATS why the games dying.
The community as a whole literally has such a minimal impact on the success of a game. The game itself will draw players in, and players will stay for the game and its activity. When I pub, I never see anyone being negative. In fact, since I've been an active player (likely longer than both of you) I've noticed the majority of any extreme insults comes from competitive scene to other competitive scene members, or whether in game or on IRC. NOT on the Forums or public servers. Therefore, where are the new players getting this idea?
TO SUMMARIZE SIMPLY:
1) New players leave because in the current day other games just out class DP in all aspects, and DP takes 3ish year gaps between substantial updates
2) DP relies on players to stick around years to even be active. If you remove anyone who has played 5+ years from DP from the game, the game dies right now. It is illogical to assume that fact means the community is at fault.
3) The community is the only reason this game has a present. The nostalgia of how the game was is what keeps the older players around, hoping it gets to that stage. But this game only is alive because of the community itself. I would argue that the community keeps/brings back more people than it makes leave. (Ie people bring their friends/old teammates back, more than they make people quit). I know I've brought more people back than I've made quit for certain.
4) Moderator on forums is irrelevant to future of the game, but it is relevant to the forum being a place people can post without fear of harassment. I agree one is needed, and mentioned my assumed criteria in a previous post.
5) Stop blaming the community. You've taken TiNi's comment so far that you became the bigger problem. Do you think your actions are killing the game? It may have annoyed people, but certainly didn't kill the game. That's all trash talk typically does, it rarely causes people to truly leave. (Trash talking isn't a DP problem, it's an internet problem - its unfixable, the only reason its under a microscope in DP is because if 1 person leaves that is a big hit to the activity as this game depends on every single current player just to have any servers filled).
6) As stated previously, you were the bigger problem in this situation. Don't blame TiNi for you leaving. TiNi's original comment did not make you leave, future comments caused you to. If you were mature and ignored his first comment, there would be no future comments, and you would not have quit. Like many others who "quit due to community members", they don't realize they were part of the problem. They provoked or aided in causing the problems to occur, as you did in this case. You caused yourself to leave by not being mature in the first place.
I tried to make it simple as it's clear English is not your native language. Please do not respond back in an argumentative manner.
