However, with even a couple updates per year, a game with fantastic combat like Vindictus or Continent of the Ninth will continue to flourish. If a game doesn’t receive content at least periodically, the game will grow stagnant and only the most dedicated players will continue to log in.
Gameplay is typically crucial to keeping a community of players together playing. Unless the publisher shuts the servers down. If a game has a dedicated community, players that genuinely love the game they’re playing, it’ll never truly die. MMOs like Vindictus or Mabinogi are proof of that. An active population isn’t everything, though.
