why does an “active and engaged player base” matter at all? you can host a personal/local dedicated server, so no worries about them shutting the servers off. the game has no larger community interactions beyond what happens on a server. there’s not even pvp that would suffer from a diminished player base.
do you, like, only play games that other people think are cool?
i mean sure, maybe i don’t get it on the level you do. maybe nobody here has such a refined sense of taste in humor as you.
but that doesn’t excuse you being a whiny bitch about it.