I've been playing for 38 minutes but before that i played for over 6 hours.
{Insert sarcastic grin here}
Found the game last year in late summer, AD 2011. Love it. And no, this game is not dying. It's alive and well - needs updating yes, but it's being discovered by people all over the world.
The 2238 definition of self-centered: "When you think the game is dying just because some people quit, yet you hang around in the IRC and the forum and complain about it rather than help new players get started. When you do find them, you murder them and then wonder why so few people here. Meanwhile some of us know the game is not dying - we're still playing it as we can and loving every minute of it, grumbling about the bugs but never quitting."