At the risk of sounding overly critical or unthankful, here are my reasons for not playing any more. I started playing at TG because I expected it to be a good place play in a tactical manner and to a certain degree that is true I guess. However when buying ArmA I really was really looking forward to do very tactical, tens, immersive and teamwork based infantry battles between teams. On TG however there doesn't seem to be much desire to play TvT nor are many no respawn missions played. Both cause a significant lack of tension and immersion in my gameplay and furthermore a serious lack of need to use effective tactics. Sure you can use those tactics, but more for immersion or fun reasons rather than a utmost need to survive against a capable human team. To add to that most of the server and forum activity lately is about Sahrani Life, which as fun as it may be, is not exactly the pinnacle of tactical ArmA gameplay.

I don't know if others who started playing less had the same reasons, but server number seemed to be going down, so the average player base seems to be relatively small. At a certain point it was announced that there would be a SM only server, which raised an eyebrow with me. I'm not saying this because I'm not an SM, but if you're player base is already small and you then cut it in two by excluding part of the players from a server, I think you will see that the average number of players drop below a certain threshold necessary to get people on a server.

I realize this my all sound pretty negative, but it is meant as an honest observation why I think players number have been low and apart from that why I personally don't play much any more. I'm still waiting to see how Shiners TvT turns out, but unless there is going to be more tens, immersive and tactical teamwork oriented game play I'm don't think I will play more often.

With respect and gratitude,

Taxi.